This is interesting things that you thought you wanted to do that haven't happened.

I haven't booked skydiving.

I haven't booked skydiving either but that wasn't on my list.

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.

Today might be a little bit of a rustling of paper episode. Yes the Post-it notes are still all over my desk. That is something I still

need to be working on, but we thought we would have a little bit of a chat about reflecting back on the year, not in terms of

super planning for next year, but just in terms of how things have gone, looking back what we're noticing when we take time to look at it, rather than perhaps how we might immediately imagine it. But before we get into that, what have you been doing this week?

I've been prepping and this isn't self-promotion because by the time this comes out it'll be over but I've been

prepping for a little flash studio sale I started to have a clear out of my studio and

realized there's a lot of things I've been hanging on to, little bits of pieces from

different projects that I haven't let go of, nothing, you know, just bits on paper and I thought, am I going I gonna I put a lot of things on a bonfire and I thought

am I gonna put these on the bonfire I still like them yeah I decided I have a little studio

sale pre Christmas I never get round to giving people an opportunity

to buy something before Christmas. I'm never organized enough. And then I thought, does it have

to be a big deal or can I just you know I can do this quickly so I don't have

millions of things I have about 32 I think little paper pieces or pieces on paper that will be bargains and then in some kind of

miracle in the last few weeks my creativity has all come back and I finished six paintings and I thought they're not a big series they don't have a great big concept behind them. I just really love them and instead of my usual big launch big I just think I'm going to put them on my

website at the same time and see if anyone wants them and so I've been working on that so of

course you think it's not a lot but then you've got to photograph everything and in the case of the paintings you've got to paint the edges and varnish them and find frames for them and all of that kind of things.

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