Hi and

welcome to Art Juice, this is honest, generous and humorous conversations to

feed your creative soul and to get you thinking with me Louise Fletcher and me Alice Sheridan.

And this week we're going to break a little bit from our normal format where we have a chat about what we've both been up to.

Because I've been the one with a really busy week that I wanted to talk about,

so I'm selfishly hijacking the podcast

so that Alice has to talk about me. That's always my

favorite subject and I wanted to do that because I mentioned last week or the

week before the week before that I had taken on this new property that I hope to create into a place for workshops and this week and the bit of the end of last week was my first time up there getting

stuck into working on that property with a builder friend and his son who works for him and that the property is in a very remote location and about as a

remote I would say about as remote as remote as

and isolated as it gets in England

because England's quite crowded

and we don't have a lot of big spaces.

But because it's so isolated and quiet and absolutely beautiful, there's not a ton of people up there to do jobs.

So the builders in the area, people just laughed when we asked about builders they were like well you could get on the waiting list

So so luckily for me the builder that works as worked on my house here and on my studio is able to come up with

his son and do work up there so they're doing the things I need and

and over time maybe I'll find know, be able to find people. So we were all up there for the first time and it has been the most amazing week and I'm really happy at the end of it. I feel so good about the decision and about what we're doing.

But we had some troughs and valleys. I feel like I lived a year in a week and I thought it would make a good topic because I have the same experience when I'm making work for an exhibition like a year ago I think it was when I had an exhibition to aim for

That was I had the same experience as I'm having now, which is this constant up and down, emotional roller coaster.

And there are peaks and valleys to it and the peaks feel amazing.

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