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Art Juice: A podcast for artists, creatives and art lovers

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

Arts, Visual Arts

4.81.1K 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.

Mentioned

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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Transcript

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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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