I wouldn't necessarily say that I can think of a time when I've been very challenged in a different area to art making and have also done something brand new.

Hello and welcome to Art Juice. This is honest, generous and humorous conversations that will feed your

creative soul and get you thinking with me, Alice Sheridan. And me, Louise Fletcher. And we have got a

discussion today all around balancing different challenges, which I hope is going to be interesting for you to listen to as you go about your day.

But first of all, tell us what's been going on in the last week for you in the time since we last

chatted. So I was just saying to you, I'm in quite a nice routine at the moment because

still working on the property in Cumbria, specifically the studio space.

Yeah.

And so we go up there for a few days every week, do some work on that, then come back.

And when I'm back, I have my own studio.

So I do some painting while I'm back here.

I do my course filming because I'm in the middle of creating and teaching, of course, at the moment.

And it's a lot of back and forth, but it's actually a really nice drive backwards and forwards up through the Yorkshire Dales.

So it's not like it's a, you know, a great difficulty to have to do it.

But last week, we had three power cuts over the weekend.

So we had that big storm in the UK.

And where I live, where my home is, we never get power cuts.

If we do the power flickers and then comes back on.

But that's not the same for Cumbria.

When I told my mom about Cumbria, she said,

oh, welcome to Cumbria, buy some candles.

So anyway, yes, the power goes off fairly frequently.

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