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

Patience, Perspective, and the Benefit of Experience [211]

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

Louise Fletcher/Alice Sheridan

Visual Arts, Arts

4.81K Ratings

🗓️ 6 June 2023

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

Alice and Louise are together for the first time in weeks and their arty catch-up turns into an exploration of the importance of honouring our own creative processes. This includes resting when necessary, but also understanding when you need to take action. When is it worthwhile to push a little, and to test out different ideas before settling on a direction? And how important is it to keep taking steps forward, even though you can't know where they are actually leading? We also cover the confidence that comes with experience - perhaps we no longer need to worry so much about "getting it right" because we've learned it will all work out OK anyway. This is quite a philosophical discussion, but we think it's one worth having.

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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

There's some self-patients being kind to yourself when whatever it is that you're hoping for or

0:06.6

planning for is taking longer than you want to get there.

0:10.4

Hi and welcome. there. you thinking with me Louise Fletcher and we haven't recorded together for a while

0:26.5

feels a long time doesn't it yeah feel like hello stranger and which it wasn't planned in any

0:32.0

particular way it was just how things worked out but it's nice to see you again and we didn't have any particular plan you'll be shocked if you're a regular listener to hear that that we didn't have a plan.

0:46.2

So what would we thought would be good would be to have a catch up and find out what's happening in each other's

0:51.2

arty worlds. So that's what we're going to do today and we hope something

0:55.2

useful comes out of it. But if it doesn't, hopefully it'll be entertaining. So instead of doing

1:00.8

what have you been up to this week, I suppose we're just going to launch right into, what have you been up to in general?

1:07.0

You know how often I come and I say we've been to Dartmouth more and it just rained?

1:11.0

Mm-hmm. We went to Dartmoor and we had five days of uninterrupted sunshine.

1:17.7

It was like heaven on earth, it was absolutely glorious. I did quite a lot of just lying on the grass. I read

1:29.6

a book and a half. I also did some just lying on the grass, like listening to the birds.

1:36.7

Yeah. It was just so, I don't know, it was like this little kind of magic hotspot my daughter's doing a level revision we did some lying on the grass chatting together about like future life plans and

1:51.1

exam anxiety and all of that stuff and also some of it was I didn't really have much choice because the neighbours are doing

1:58.8

some building works and whether or not their cherry-picker thing destroyed our phone line. We had internet speeds of all of 1 megabytes.

2:08.9

So that meant that very occasionally I could manage to open a window and then I just got circling this work this

2:18.2

way which was really good fun in the last few days of having the membership open. So I've had a really, really, really good

2:27.5

lesson in letting go. There is nothing you can do about this it is what it is

2:35.2

and there we go that's how you deal with perfectionist tendencies and

2:39.8

feeling like you've got to do all the things all the time you just go somewhere you can't.

2:44.3

Do you know I just saw a Mel Robbins Instagram reel and it was it was like so mind-blowing to me that what she said and it's so obvious but she said

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