Why is it So Hard to Part With My Work? [127]
Art Juice: A podcast for artists, creatives and art lovers
Louise Fletcher/Alice Sheridan
4.8 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 29 June 2021
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
Do you struggle to let paintings go? This week we're answering a question from Gill Allen, who says "Why do I find it so hard to part with my work? I know I need to get over this impending feeling of loss but just how do I do that? Why do I feel like I'm losing part of myself even contemplating selling a piece of work?" We discuss this question from a number of different angles and also share our own experiences. Neither of us has struggled to let work go, but we have sometimes chosen to keep breakthrough paintings for a while. As we discuss Gill's question, we ponder the idea of selling work - maybe some people don't want to do that? We also ask whether there are underlying issues behind a desire to keep everything and we suggest a simple reframe that might be helpful. If you feel your paintings are precious babies to be held on to at all costs, this episode is for you.
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Gill Allen: https://gillallen.co.nz/
Arvon Foundation Writers Centers https://www.arvon.org/
Mark Steel's in Hull https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SV8-lktieDs
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| 0:00.0 | Instead of I'm losing a part of myself, I'm giving a part of myself, because that's what we're doing. |
| 0:07.6 | That's what art is. Hi everybody and welcome to episode 127 of Art Juice. |
| 0:20.0 | This is honest, generous and humorous conversations to feed your creative soul and get you thinking. |
| 0:25.6 | With me, Louise Fletcher. |
| 0:27.0 | And me, Alice Sheridan. |
| 0:29.3 | And this week our main topic comes from a listener question, |
| 0:32.8 | now all the way from New Zealand, |
| 0:34.3 | so we'll get to that shortly, |
| 0:35.9 | but first of all, let's talk about what we've been up to this week. |
| 0:39.2 | So what's your week being like Alice? |
| 0:41.5 | After, I had a bit of a slump last week, kind of energetically and actually I showed up in the co-create |
| 0:49.7 | session in the membership on Chisian and I was like, right, come on, cheer me up. What have you |
| 0:54.8 | got to share to cheer me up? And they did. Of course they did. It was lovely. |
| 0:58.9 | I always leave those smiling. They're really good. So I've got a funny to share with you at the end because I've also been |
| 1:05.5 | I've just been deliberately looking for things that make me feel good because I know that that is my reset. |
| 1:11.6 | So I have been, I have been, well I'm not going to boy with all |
| 1:17.0 | the list of the things, all the usual kind of self-carey things that you would hope to be doing. I'm feeling back on track with that now. |
| 1:27.6 | But what I've also been doing is within the membership we have a kind of sequence which is there all the time but |
| 1:36.1 | we've been doing it together live and it's really nice to do to do things at the same time. |
| 1:42.3 | There's again there's a kind of momentum thing with people doing everything at once. |
| 1:46.2 | And it's about kind of visibility and showing up and we call it the time to shine challenge. |
| 1:51.2 | And it's really interesting to go through that again to see. to boundaries and whether things are good enough and you know I think perhaps we anticipate |
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