The commonest question, business question I get is some form of this question.

How do I sell my art without doing social media which I don't like and without doing marketing

which I don't enjoy.

Well, you don't, so that's that. Welcome to episode 1502 of Art Juice. This is honest, generous and humorous

conversations to feed your creative soul and get you thinking with me

Louise Fletcher me Alice Sheridan this week's topic has arisen from some

things I think we've both been facing about long-term vision and sticking with our long-term

vision and maybe how do we do that when things come up that seem enticing or interesting or something else.

So that's going to be our main topic,

but first of all, we're just going to catch up

on each other's week as normal.

So what have you been up to Alice? I have been settling back into these

paintings in the studio. I had a good few days together on the run with them. And you know when you've done those really first lovely stages, you're like, oh, this is all exciting and this is good and I really like this and then you go anything right okay now what next you know what am I going to do because there are things here and you know that you've got to kind of get past that into the next stage of it does get, I was going to get, I was going to say I'm not sure it gets any easier.

It does get easier because you know what's on the other side of it, but it's still hard. And I think not wanting to kind of settle on things too early is always a big problem when you work this way but it's exciting then and every time you leave it you go back and you see something else I went back in yesterday to do a little bit of a review because I didn't think I had that many big ones and I've got them all together and I think there's 10 or 12. So there's a lot going on and I thought, okay, I need a little bit of clarity here sort them all out, let's work out how things are going to sit alongside each other.

Because I think that's also important in a collection of work that it that it that not only is there variation in mood within a

painting perhaps but paintings that sit together so that's what I was doing yesterday, but while I was doing that that time looking, I just noticed so many things from just what I've done already of different different parts of paint coming through that I would never do if I set out to do it that way.

So there's this lovely sort of lime green that was hideous in the first round and you can look at the first

couple of stages if you post back on

Instagram and people said oh this is a fun new direction I thought well it won't stay

like that but there's parts from that stage that are still there but it's softening and I like the way that it's settling down there is this

kind of depth to them but a softness and I'm quite happy with the way they're going so it's been a very good studio week.

That's good and actually for once me too a a good, we usually are opposite ups and downs.

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