Like I almost think there'd be something wrong with you if you didn't suffer from a little bit of imposter syndrome if you were an artist. Hi and welcome to episode 47 of Art Juice, honest, generous and humorous

conversations to feed your creative soul and get you thinking. And today we have a special episode.

Alice has taken a wee break and I have a special guest with me which I'm so excited about I have Rachel Davis with me who is

both an amazingly talented American artist and also a psychologist so I'm gonna

let you introduce yourself a little bit, Rachel.

Tell us who you are and what you do.

Okay, thank you, Louise. I'm delighted to be here. I was a psychologist first and for

many, many years and one of my specialty areas as a

psychologist is work with artists around creativity challenges and being

stuck not all I do but it's one of the main things I do and I've always loved artists and I've always loved artists and working with them and I have been doing Japanese flower arranging for many many years and didn't really recognize that as an art form. Now I do and I would say around, I don't know, 10 years ago started doing printmaking and around three or four years ago painting in earnest sort of flailing around trying to learn whatever I could in the last two to three years basically non-stop learning.

I almost feel like I've been in art graduate school. You and I have been on several of these journeys together.

Yep. Yeah. Online learning journeys. That's where we met. And you know, for the last at least two years have been consider myself an artist,

function as an artist alongside with being a psychologist.

I'm part-time as a psychologist now and increasingly doing more art and loving it though that doesn't mean I don't like everybody all of us struggle with imposter syndrome and various other things that just comes to the territory.

That's why we thought, when Alice and I, we had a planning session and we were working out

future episodes and we got to, we must talk about imposter syndrome and then we just both thought that you would be the

perfect person to have on to talk about this. So for everybody listening we're going to get to that main

topic very shortly we're going to first of all let's talk about what

you've been working on recently well you know because I'm not a class with you but I've

been doing I do both abstract and

representational art I love both but I have this sort of pull towards the

representational work and I'm doing a series of based on old photos of my folks and it's actually coming along. I don't love all of it.

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