Authentic Obsessions
by Margret PetrieThe world is filled with prolific artists who have an obsessive hunger to create. Join me for conversations with artists embracing the joy and uncertainty that fuels their work. Listen in as we delve into creative obsessions, supportive communities, getting stuck, studio spaces, and setting boundaries. Acknowledge the mess and keep going!
Copyright: 2020 Authentic Obsessions
Episodes
Samantha Downing - Storytelling
1h 2m · PublishedTakeaways
1. There is no overnight success. Everyone pays their dues, one way or another.
2. Every human being is unreliable in the way they tell stories.
3. Take pleasure in the striving aspect of the process. The fact that you worked really hard and accomplished the goal is the thing. “It’s not the having, it’s the getting.” Elizabeth Taylor
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Samantha Downing on Instagram
Parasite
I Care A Lot
Daphne du Maurier, author of Rebecca
Duncan Petrie - The Yearning
1h 21m · PublishedTakeaways
- Take everyone seriously but yourself.
- Making art is an extreme sport.
- Do the thing you'd wonder about the most if you didn't do it.
- If you can’t see a way to solve a problem you have to trust that you’ll figure it out eventually. So don’t walk away, just keep looking.
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Duncan Petrie
Duncan Petrie on Instagram
Birds with Hats on Instagram
Duncan Petrie on YouTube
Brian Eno on Broken Record
Camera Lucida by Roland Barthes
South West Coast Path
J. R. R. Tolkien
Phoebe Gander - Curiosity, Light & Shadow
1h 19m · PublishedTakeaways
- Just because you can doesn’t mean you should.
- Paint what you see, not what you think you see.
- Listen to those niggly voices.
- Reframe the act of creating from outcome-driven to process driven.
- "If you could say it in words, there would be no reason to paint.” Edward Hopper
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Phoebe Gander
Phoebe Gander on Instagram
Phoebe Gander on Facebook
Julie Battisti on Instagram
Embracing Neurodiversity with Phoebe Gander podcast with Susan Nethercote podcast
Permission to Paint and Embrace My True Self with Phoebe Gander on The Laura Horn Art podcast
Edward Hopper
Marissa Huber - Searching for Meaning
1h 7m · PublishedTakeaways
- You can do everything, just not at the same time.
- Don’t overthink everything, this isn’t dating in your 20’s.
- What you choose to do or what your life looks like is up to you but there's no one right way to have a creative life.
- When your life is a spaghetti mess just think of that one thing that you can do to nudge yourself along the path. And snacks help.
- Artists are resilient problem solvers and comfortable in the vague place between the uncomfortableness of not knowing what's next but having the trust that we can figure it out because we've done it so many times.
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Carve Out Time for Art
The Motherhood of Art, by Marissa Huber and Heather Kirtland
Heather Kirtland
Range, Why Generalists Triumph In A Specialized World, by David Epstein
Mike East
Artist Mother Podcast
Artist Residency in Motherhood
Mondo Beyondo
Josef Frank
Nancy Gruskin on Savvy Painter
Liz Dexter - Materials
1h 17m · PublishedTakeaways
- Your artistic voice is already inside of you
- Sometimes “ready enough” is the point you where you need to put yourself out there.
- Just do the next thing in the art that needs to be done.
- Live your definition of being a good person.
- Consider creating an art pod.
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Liz Dexter
Liz Dexter on Instagram
Liz Dexter on Facebook
Chroma Collective Gallery
Chroma Collective Galleryon Instagram
Val Hubbard
Barbara Weir
Emily Kame Kngwarreye
Poppy Dodge - Color
1h 21m · PublishedTakeaways
- It’s got to get ugly before it gets good.
- Persistence and obsession keep you going forward.
- Remind yourself that you’re on Instagram for opportunities and take your ego out of it.
- Add the “YET.” Don’t say I haven’t done that, say I haven’t done that YET.
- A big studio is great – but if you’re scrappy you can carve out a space anywhere.
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Poppy Dodge
Poppy on Instagram
Poppy on Facebook
Poppy on Pinterest
Gee’s Bend quilting retreats
Hand Yoga Club on YouTube with Heidi Parkes
Frankie magazine
Oruaiti Reserve hike, aka the Kupe Trail
Lynn Giunta
Lisa Congdon
Bisa Butler
Alison Watt - Ways of Seeing
1h 16m · PublishedTakeaways
- Paint as if neither your time nor your materials are valuable.
- “We grow small when we try to be great.” David Hockney
- Our job is to have an authentic relationship with what we’re making.
- Take some time to pause and look back at what you have created.
- Visual imagery can slide underneath language right to the heart.
- Create a lot of opportunity for unexpected events.
- Every layer makes it better.
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Alison Watt
Alison Watt on Instagram
Alison Watt on YouTube
Artwork Artplay
Alison Watt on Pinterest
Dazzle Patterns, by Alison Watt
Triangle Island, Anne Vallée Triangle Island Ecological Reserve
David Hockney
Joni Mitchell
Jane Davies - Visual Language
1h 21m · PublishedTakeaways
- "If you can see your path laidout in front of you step by step, you know it's not your path. Your own path you make withevery step you take. That's whyit's your path.” Joseph Campbell
- Fine art is essentially an exploration. You DON’T know how everything is going to turn out.
- Art is never easy – you must learn to live with the discomfort.
- Pay attention to the difference between inspiration (what gets you into the studio) and what your paintings express.
- People get stuck because they have a plan and stick to it, when sometimes you just need to NOT plan.
- Notice your defaults and then expand upon them.
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Jane Davies
Jane Davies on Instagram
Jane Davies on Facebook
Jane Davies on Youtube
Jane Davies on Pinterest
Jane’s book, Abstract Painting: The Elements of Visual Language
Rupert Village Trust and The Sheldon Store
Winslow Art Center
Musicians James Hilland Anne Janelle
Aboriginal artists Minnie Pwerle and Emily Kame Kngwarreye
Marin Laukka - Authenticity
1h 20m · PublishedTakeaways
- Sometimes it’s just not the season to follow through on the original plan.
- It doesn’t have to be all or nothing. It’s a continuous process – it’s those little leaps of faith that build upon each other and create more clarity and foster more confidence within ourselves that lead to more fulfillment and life satisfaction.
- Make your quit list.
- Ask yourself: is it time to ditch the physical manifestation of your “thing” and pursue something different to get to the same outcome, or should you pause and come back to it another time?
- Once you’re stepping toward the thing that you’re considering, you’ll free pretty quickly whether it’s the right thing for you or not.
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Marin Laukka
Marin on Instagram
Marin on YouTube
Marin on Facebook
Brené Brown
Sonya Clark
Via Character Strengths
Positive Psychology
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
Matt D’Avella
Lisa Woodward - Footpaths
1h 7m · PublishedTakeaways
1. You don’t have to make anything, you can just explore. And if meaning comes out of that, great, but it doesn’t have to.
2. We need to forgive ourselves for not being other artists than who we are. Who we are in the rest of our lives is going to come out in our work. It comes from who we are and we can’t change that. When we make art, we are who we are.
3. Don’t despair if your art doesn’t sell. Alice Sheridan said that sometimes you need to hold on to your art because you’re not finished learning from it
4. When you become an artist later in life, you’re not starting from zero. You have a huge resource of experience, confidence and self-knowledge that gives you a head start and lets you develop a clear voice and style more quickly and more surely.
5. “You miss one hundred percent of the shots you don't take.” Wayne Gretzky
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Lisa Woodward
Lisa Woodward on Instagram
Lisa Woodward on Pinterest
A Glorious Freedom: Older Women Leading Extraordinary Lives, by Lisa Congdon
On Trails, An Exploration, by Robert Moor
Jane Davies
AlgonquinProvincialPark
Authentic Obsessions has 87 episodes in total of non- explicit content. Total playtime is 95:25:40. The language of the podcast is English. This podcast has been added on July 28th 2022. It might contain more episodes than the ones shown here. It was last updated on May 17th, 2024 00:10.