Hi and welcome to Art Duce's honest, generous and humorous conversations to feed your creative soul and get you thinking.

With me, Louise Fletcher and this week I am

joined by a special guest because Alice and I are taking our summer break but I

had some things I wanted to talk about and this seemed like the perfect time to bring on a special guest.

So I am joined by Rachel Davis, California abstract artist,

representational artist and printmaker.

I did want to mention that we have coming up the Find Your Joy

taste of course I do this once a year it's a free eight-day workshop for anybody

who wants to find a new level with their painting.

It's for everybody from beginners to experts, everybody from abstract to

representational and everything in between. This is not about how to paint like me.

This is a free online workshop where we all work together to help each other find our own unique ways of expression.

It's tons of fun. You can sign up on my website at Louise Fletcherart.com

or on the link in the show notes wherever you're listening to this. I do hope you come

and join us. We start on August 29th and we're going to have a blast. Hope to see you then.

Now on with the show. Hi Rachel.

Good morning, Louise.

Rachel is a friend of the podcast because she has been on before,

but we've got a different topic to discuss this week and but before we talk about that topic let me just give Rachel a little bit of an introduction so I've known her since 2018.

She was at that time a private psychologist working with private clients

and also painting, and we kind of started our serious painting journey together in a way and since then she's gone from

strength to strength she's now retired from psychology and art is her full-time career.

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