are you ever going to, otherwise sit in your studio for two days and look at the work you've created and think

what can I learn from how these look together? Hi and welcome to episode 213 of Art Juice, this is honest, generous and

humorous conversations to feed your creative soul and get you thinking with

me Louise Fletcher and me Alice Sheridan.

And we hope this is going to be one of our best episodes ever because it's our second time round

so we should be so much better this time. We had a technical hitch yesterday and our recording just disappeared and so we had this brilliant conversation. So if you were so good, it was the best ever good it was the best ever it was the

best ever if you all listen to this and thinking this is really boring today

just realize that we did an amazing episode but it wasn't saved.

So we want to talk today about showing work.

And this subject came up because Alice is preparing

for open studios, but we're not going to actually talk about

open studios we thought we talk about kind of the pluses and minuses of sharing the benefits to us the benefits to other people, maybe why we wouldn't want to share our work,

maybe what stops us from sharing our work, just a general discussion around a topic that we know is sensitive for a lot of artists. But before we get into that main topic, Alice, tell us what you've been up to.

Being a busy week. It. Been a busy week.

Been a busy week.

So yesterday, when we recorded first time,

I wasn't quite ready.

Today, Friday morning, we're open tonight. I am more close to being super ready for artists at home,

which is our open studio event. So I've got a couple more little tasks to do but I didn't do it last year and I think it's easier at home.

It's definitely easier during the weekend at home. It's more relaxing. You've got everything that you need at hand, but I've got more

paintings this time. So I've had to clear more space, like the room that is off and the junk room that stuff gets shoved in,

it's full of paintings this year. There's a lot on show and that's great but it's just meant

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