Making Your Own Luck [207]
Art Juice: A podcast for artists, creatives and art lovers
Louise Fletcher/Alice Sheridan
4.8 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 9 May 2023
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
Have you ever been worked really hard at something and then been told you were lucky to have it? This week, we're diving into the topic of luck - how much of what happens to us is simply good (or bad) fortune, and how much is within our control? Last week, guest artist Faye Bridgwater talked about the importance of being your own champion.
This week we're following up and exploring this idea of making your own luck. Is any successful person there by luck alone? Do "lucky" people get away with never having to work hard? And how much of what we see in others is true and how much is simply our own projection? We also touch on the idea of privilege, and on the importance of being honest about our own choices. We all have things we'd like to change - maybe this episode will help turn envy into action, or help you spot places where you are holding yourself back from creating your own "lucky" situations!
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The Cotswolds https://www.cotswolds.com/
The White Chapel Gallery: Action, Gesture, Paint https://www.whitechapelgallery.org/exhibitions/action-gesture-paint-women-and-global-abstraction-1940-70/
See Alice Sheridan at:
www.alicesheridan.com
@alicesheridanstudio
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www.louisefletcherart.com
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | 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. We had such a fabulous |
| 0:16.1 | response to the discussion that I had with Fay on last episode. We thought we should |
| 0:21.6 | continue it so withe we were talking about this lovely idea of being your own champion. |
| 0:28.0 | And we're going to talk a little bit about the idea of making your own luck. Little twist, a little bit of a continuation, but we're |
| 0:38.0 | going to be coming at you with that in just a minute, but first of all, what have you been doing since we last spoke? |
| 0:46.0 | Well we haven't spoken for a few weeks have we because we were you were recording with |
| 0:49.5 | Fay and I was doing something with someone else for later. So I've been away, not this week, but the week before. |
| 0:56.5 | So I went down to the Coxwalls, Gloucestershire, I was in Gloucestershire, the Coxwalls |
| 1:02.3 | County is an area that goes over several counties. |
| 1:04.8 | I was in Gloucestershire and a bit in Oxfordshire and had a really lovely few days, so lovely |
| 1:12.1 | and I had to come back because of the time I booked, I booked to go back again this week because I can. |
| 1:18.0 | I can work from anywhere. I don't have to work from here. |
| 1:22.0 | How lucky you are to be able to do that. |
| 1:24.0 | Yeah, how lucky, exactly. |
| 1:28.0 | So lucky. But anyway, lovely, what a beautiful place I've been there before quite a few years ago. |
| 1:34.8 | But and I think last time I went it was the summer holidays when everybody's off with their kids |
| 1:41.5 | so it was a lot busier now when I went this time it's not the |
| 1:46.1 | summer holidays and it was just so peaceful that was what struck me about it it's a |
| 1:51.4 | very peaceful place. It just feels very |
| 1:55.0 | serene and you feel relaxed. It's all the old buildings I think and the big old trees and it's just got a lovely lovely vibe to it and also I've got some |
| 2:08.6 | a couple of friends down there and I spent some time with them and saw where they work. He's a frame, he's just setting up his |
| 2:16.9 | framing business and she's an artist and I went to her studio and I saw where he's setting up his framing and yeah it was lovely and even |
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