Am I just jumping away from something because I can't be bothered to put the effort in?

Yeah. Oh, because it's got hard. Has it really just died for me?

And there's no bringing it back to life. I could beat it and beat it with a stick and it's never coming back to life. Hello and welcome to Art Juice. This is honest, generous and humorous

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with me Alice Sheridan and me Louise Fletcher And this is episode 136 and we're going to be talking about staying focused.

Hands up.

Yeah, so we're going to be talking about that.

It's a subject that Louise has brought and it's great.

I just love diving into things like that. So, but before we get into that,

tell us a little bit about your week. What has been going on?

Well, I'm going back two weeks actually, because last week I was in a day's and I completely forgot to tell you one of the biggest things that had happened and that is that I went to visit the gallery space that is going to that where I'm going to have an exhibition from May till July next year and so it's my it'll just be my paintings

There's a very famous ceramicist who has a who they're doing a retrospective of in a small gallery and then they're having

look and I'm afraid I can't remember his name because he's so famous that I'm ignorant of me doesn't know who it is. I'll tell you that in future episodes,

then that they're going to get some modern contemporary ceramicists in the main gallery that they have and then they wanted a painter and they invited me which is really exciting.

And so I went to visit and look how big it is.

It's big, it's really quite big it's only one room one big square room lovely

lovely walls they've got also they've got all glass on one side, but they've got movable plints that can make

extra wall if they want it.

And what was exciting was, while I was there,

two of my students from my very first Find Your Joy

were having an exhibition.

And I chatted to them and they had pitched it themselves,

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