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 and this week we are going to be

chatting a little bit about longevity I suppose how long plans sometimes take to come to fruition, self-belief.

We've got all sorts of things that are happening in both our lives that made this a current topic for this week.

So we hope that you will find something to inspire you and keep you going.

Tell me what has been going on, What have you been working on this week?

Well, I've been coming to completion on something that actually started about five years ago and has had so many fits and starts and issues and problems.

But finally I'm coming to the end of the and the reason I'm sounding a bit bit because I don't actually know what I'm going to do with it.

You know when you have a knowing that you want to do something, but it's not fully formed, and you know it's a bit like painting, you can't get to the fully formed thing until you have the thing.

Because, so I've looked at, well, this all started about five years ago, I said to a friend of mine,

I was taking an online painting course and I said I'd love to bring this kind of learning that I'm having to other people.

So I'd love to get out of the work I'm doing, get some kind of retreat center and bring art teachers in to help people learn in person.

And she said, well you could do the teaching and I said, I don't have anything to teach. I couldn't be the teacher.

I have to find teachers to come in. That was the first

spark of the idea. Then I later began teaching online, but I was just doing it online.

About two years ago I decided I'm going to go to Cornwall

and I'm going to open an art retreat, I'm going to move, I'm going to go to Cornwall,

so I went in there to see and I went oh I don't want to live in

Cornwall oh what do I want to do now then so over these you know years this idea

has come and gone I've tried to rent commercial properties. I've tried to look into the kind of thing you've done where you just get a location and do a thing there. But that was not my vision needed it to be my space I think that's

my control freak thing and finally about six months ago I found the place and I knew it was the place and I knew everything was going to go okay with it. I knew but these things take time. There was a lot to check out a lot of investigations to do and now I'm ready

to start prepping this venue which I'm again being very vague about at the moment but I will let everyone know when it's ready

it's just going to take maybe a year maybe a bit less than a year to be ready.

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