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Savvy Painter Podcast with Antrese Wood

When Your Studio Becomes a Storage Unit

Savvy Painter Podcast with Antrese Wood

Antrese Wood

Education, Arts, Visual Arts, Self-improvement

4.8941 Ratings

🗓️ 13 November 2025

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

What to do when decades of work are stacked against your walls and you can't remember the last time you made a decision about any of it. You know that feeling when you walk into your studio and see paintings leaning against every wall, flat files overflowing, canvases stacked so deep you've forgotten what's in the back? And underneath it all, that low hum of dread: What's going to happen to all of this? Maybe you've been making work for decades. Grad school pieces, late-night sessions after t...

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0:00.0

Hey, before we jump in, I have a question for you. Do you spend more time thinking about making art than actually making it?

0:08.4

Start things that you never finish. Make work and then stack it against the wall facing away from you so you don't have to look at it.

0:14.9

If any of that sounds familiar, I want to talk to you. I'm developing a program right now specifically for artists dealing with self-doubt and

0:22.1

creative blocks. And to make it actually helpful, I want to understand what's really hard for you right now.

0:28.3

So I'm looking for artists to interview, to talk with. This is purely research. There's no pitch. It's

0:34.5

just me wanting to know what's going on with you in your studio.

0:37.9

And I am happy to answer your questions about creative confidence in exchange.

0:43.2

So if that sounds like you, go to savvypainter.com forward slash survey to tell me what's going on.

0:49.2

And if we're a good fit, I will reach out to you to schedule a call.

0:52.4

That's savvypainter.com forward slash survey.

0:56.6

Okay, let's get started with today's episode.

1:00.3

You're listening to the Savvy Painter Podcast episode number 362.

1:05.7

Hello, my friends. Welcome to another episode of the Savvy Painter podcast. I'm your host,

1:10.6

Antrease Wood. And if you've been

1:12.1

listening for a while, welcome back. If you're new here, welcome, welcome. I am so glad that you found

1:19.1

the podcast. Savvy Painter is the podcast for artists who want practical tactical tips to create a

1:25.0

meaningful art practice that is both fulfilling and supports you.

1:32.2

You know what I think about sometimes? I think about artists with shelves overflowing with canvases,

1:38.8

paintings leaning against every single wall and an improvised rack system on the verge of collapse.

1:45.7

A studio so full of decades of work, there's barely room to make anything new.

1:50.5

And hanging over all of it, what is going to happen to all of this?

1:55.3

I don't know if that sounds like you.

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