Be Your Own Champion - with Faye Bridgwater [206]

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

Louise Fletcher/Alice Sheridan

Visual Arts, Arts

4.8 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 2 May 2023

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

Today we hear from award winning south coast artist Faye Bridgwater. Faye makes bright, uplifting paintings from her home studio, but it hasn't always been this way.... At various steps over the last few years some bold moves have been needed. We talk about growing in to your own space and investing in yourself. While it's up to you to be your own advocate we also discuss how you can work to your own strengths by involving others to support different elements of being an artist. And we discuss a risky move Faye has made in attempt to reach a wider audience on the eve of Brighton's Artist Open Houses.

You can visit in person throughout May, or check the link below to discover a wealth of artists to explore online.

Mentioned

Find Faye's website : https://www.fayebridgwater.com/

and on Instagram @faye_bridgwater

Brighton Artist Open Houses https://aoh.org.uk/

Faye Venue 1 : Understory : https://aoh.org.uk/house/may2023/faye-bridgwater-at-understory/

Faye Venue 2 : https://aoh.org.uk/house/may2023/faye-bridgwater-at-the-ballroom/

Faye's blog about opening your home HERE

Prints from King and McGaw

https://www.kingandmcgaw.com/prints/faye-bridgwater

If you’re thinking of visiting Brighton

https://www.visitbrighton.com/

See Alice Sheridan at:

⁠⁠⁠⁠www.alicesheridan.com ⁠⁠⁠⁠

⁠⁠⁠⁠@alicesheridanstudio⁠⁠⁠⁠

Find more about Louise Fletcher:

⁠⁠⁠⁠www.louisefletcherart.com⁠⁠⁠⁠

⁠⁠⁠⁠@louisefletcher_art⁠⁠⁠⁠

Credits: "Monkeys Spinning Monkeys" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License

Transcript

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0:00.0	and just like yeah I deserve this space I'm never going to do anything else of my life so if I'm an artist I'm doing it. Hello and
0:15.0	welcome to Art Juice.
0:16.0	This is honest, generous and humorous conversations
0:19.0	that will feed your creative soul
0:20.0	and get you thinking with me Alice Sheridan and Louise is taking a break this week and I am here with the delightful and effervescent
0:29.5	Faybridge water who bless her socks is back for round two because we don't know what happened to the recording of the first version we did so we're here for second time which is going to be bigger and better. Welcome to the
0:45.1	podcast, Frey. I hope I can live up to that Alice. I hope I can be as
0:52.2	much energy as I have with the first recording but I'm sure I can.
0:55.8	I'm sure you can. So for those of you listening you might have heard Fay's voice before.
1:02.0	She joined us for episode 96, which she feels like a very long time ago now, and we're here today to kind of talk about that urge for pushing yourself a little bit to the next level
1:20.9	and being brave and making decisions that take you into somewhere new and exciting.
1:28.0	But before we get stuck into that, can you just tell us a little bit about what does a usual week look like for you? to that
1:35.0	can you just tell us a little bit about what does a usual week look like for you, where do you live and work, and for those who don't know your paintings,
1:39.0	what do they look like so that they can imagine them?
1:42.0	Okay, so I'm Faye Bridgewater, but I live in Brighton, which is on the south coast in the UK.
1:50.0	I'm very lucky I have a sea view and my week usually looks like I've got children so juggle juggle with them a little walk to the sea front or up on the downs and lots of time in the studio or on my phone on social media and my paintings are all
2:07.1	about Sussex and florals and they're bright and bold and happy and hopefully uplifting for you.
2:14.0	There you go go, they are bright.
2:16.0	It's interesting to see.
2:17.4	I've known you for quite a long time now and in that time your work has evolved quite a bit.
2:25.0	Your working space has evolved quite a bit, which I think is interesting.
2:30.6	One feeds the other. Tell us a little bit about that journey
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