Inspired by my word of the year for 2009 - Structure - I take a humorous little poke at the fact that my day off this week was partly a working day. So listen along as I have a day off with my friend Leila in an Islington cafe. We talk about time off, ramble a bit about galleries and our work, getting into my idea of structure, how we work during our 'free time' and the shift from hobby to full time crafting, All recorded in a busy cafe on my mobile phone. Oh fanTAStic sound quality! ;)

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• StudioWaves, Deadlines

Affordable Art Fair this week, Edinburgh Art Fair next week, Dartmouth Arms show, choosing work, and what is "affordable" art anyway? Mentioned this week:

• Wetcanvas.com
• Affordable Art Fair, London (if you'd like a 1/2 price voucher for tickets, just email me)
• Edinburgh Art Fair
• My exhibition at The Dartmouth Arms, Forest Hill
• The Newhaven cliffs painting: "From Saltdean"
• The 5" horizon paintings

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• StudioWaves, Excess Energy!!!

This week I share my nervous and excess energy as I get optimistic and then get working on the new Yorkshire coast paintings. (and finish up some older ideas too) Today's picture is of the lenses in the old Dungeness lighthouse - I thought I might have a good photo of the power station there (energy and all that) but this seemed zingier!

Mentioned this week:

• My Etsy thread (I here's the follow up blog entry on the same topic, with some interesting other blog links)
• Finished Newhaven painting - no photo yet so will post later this week!
• Weird grey light on the horizon on Flickr
• The cliffs heading into Newhaven, until I get the painting photographed

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• CAPTCHA Paintings
• StudioWaves, On the bike!

This is a bit of a long show, at 17min and some seconds, but it was recorded spur of the moment and on untested equipment. When I was out on my bike I decided to play with my new phone a bit and found a "voice recorder" button. Well what do you know!?! So I decided to record bits and pieces along my journey.

I apologize in advance for the sound - there was a lot of wind noise and particularly on my arrival towards Tunstall. I couldn't quite get it out but didn't want to scrap that whole section as it was quite funny to me. (and is the part of path pictured here)

So come with me from Bridlington (I didn't know I could record at Scarborough where I really started) down to Withernsea, then on to Spurn Point before heading home from Hull. Wind, rain, disappearing roads, and even the Tour of Britain bike race!

Mentioned on this week's show:

• Skylark Gallery - now I have more space! Come see my paintings
• Veta Gorner, printmaker
• 1st Annual Cork Street Charity Exhibition - I'm IN! Acceptance email arrived today, hoorah!
• Waterstone's on Piccadilly - the most gorgeous Waterstone's anywhere
• Battlestar Galactica

Mentioned on this week's show:

Greenwich Open Studios
21-22 June, 12-6pm - LAST CHANCE!
See the website for addresses and maps to all the venues, including me!

• Jim Hill of Digital Quill Design & Thrive!
• Twitter, follow me
• What's Your Story? artist workshops
• Blackgang, Isle of Wight: then (1900-1960s) and now (ish, 2006)

Mentioned on this week's show:

Greenwich Open Studios
14-15 and 21-22 June, 12-6pm
See the website for addresses and maps to all the venues, including me!

• Alyson Stanfield, ArtBizCoach and ArtBizBlog
• Dancing with Elephants podcast (my friends who got me podcasting!)
• Etsy
• Cambridgeshire Art Fair
• Annette Johnson, who taught me to paint
• My artist statement and bio Feedback very welcome!

This was also my first podcast done with The Levelator, hope it made a difference for you.

Mentioned on this week's show:

• Muji passport sketchbooks
• Moleskine sketchbooks
• Making a Mark (Katherine Tyrrell)
• Terry Watts' paintings
• Anthony Gormley drawings - link to the talk and slides
• Humphrey Ocean drawings
• Dulwich Picture Gallery

Mentioned on this week's show:

VintageVacations on the Isle of Wight
Original Isle of Wight plan! July 2007
Designs on Demand
Google Maps and not mentioned but the immensely useful to track my routes and mileage Gmaps Pedometer
Sustrans the sustainable transport charity
Ordnance survey maps

Mentioned on this week's show:

About the painting: Near Plumpudding

Where are Plumpudding and Coldharbour? Both are on the Thames Estuary near Reculver. Google map here.


About the painting: Coldharbour



About the painting: Brighton Wave

Where is Brighton? Google map here.


About the painting: Climb to Beachy Head

Where is Beachy Head? Google map here.

Mentioned on this week's show:

• The Accidental Creative - resources for creative pros
• My friend Jo Oakley - her paintings
• My friend Tonya who inspired the topic this week! Listen to her "family" themed podcast Dancing with Elephants (Ton is also a copywriter, so a creative too.)
• ACEO paintings
• Google Reader - get all your RSS feeds (ie. blogs you subscribe to!) in one place
• My drypoint and charcoal drawings on my blog
• Greenwich Market

Today I give advice to other artists about art fairs! This is something I'm asked about a lot, since I've done a lot of artist fairs, so hopefully there's some tips here that'll help!

A wee apology in advance: I lost a lot of editing time yesterday when Audacity crashed. In addition I decided to play with splicing together my audio with snippets of an art fair meeting yesterday at Skylark Gallery. (Thanks to the artists at Skylark who were happy to be recorded!) Some of the jumps aren't great, I need to find some good segway music or sounds. A few blips and bits where I'm trying to edit out my "and"s and "umm"s, and I'm still getting to grips with adjusting the levels and peak amplitudes and stuff, especially trying to match recordings from different places.

Mentioned on this week's show:
Skylark Gallery
The Chelsea Art Fair

This week I have artist and friend Jo Ashby over for coffee and croissants while she has a look at my Blurb books. We talk about the books, about my paintings and photographs, and bits of other stuff. It winds down with sounds from Greenwich, recorded specially for listener Sue in France.
At one point Jo talks about the flecks of white of waves so it's worth having a look at her sea paintings so you can see what she means by the difference in our work. (Jo also paints seascapes.)

Mentioned on the show:
Jo Ashby, painter
www.tina-m-books.com : My books
Blurb book creation
Skylark Gallery
Greenwich Market
Sue Lishman, artist
You can also subscribe or listen to the podcast direct at StudioWaves.

Sometimes it's easy to forget that technology you're used to, other people find alien! A few people just couldn't find out how to listen. Firstly, remember that a podcast is just an MP3 file. It's just a music or audio file that plays in your internet browser. Nothing fancy or strange. :) So here are some points and tips for people new to listening to podcasts:

• On the StudioWaves.libsyn.com page you can click on the little grey "pod" button to listen to the podcast. This will open a page with the MP3 file in it, which will load and then play.

• On my Blogger page you can click on the little blue "podcast" button and the same thing will happen - this will open a page with the MP3 file in it, which will load and then play.

• Alternatively, on either site, you can download the file by right-clicking (or alt-clicking) and choosing "Save File as" or "Save Link as". Then you can save the MP3 file directly to your computer and play it in whatever sound or music programme you prefer. You can also download the file directly for putting it onto your MP3 player (such as an iPod)

• You can also subscribe to the podcast! Click on the little orange and grey "RSS" button in the StudioWaves.libsyn.com page. Clicking this brings up a new page where at the top you have options for how you want to subscribe. If none of these makes sense to you, don't worry about it - and see below for what I'm going to improve.

What am I going to do? After all, this podcast is my responsibility and I want to make it as easy as possible for you! I ask that you bear with me a little bit because some of this podcasting promotional stuff is new to me too.

• Firstly each post from now on, on BOTH sites, is going to include an easy obvious "listen" button.

• Second, I'm going to try and make subscriptions easier. I will figure out how to include an email subscription option and an iTunes option.

• Thirdly, I promise that the podcasts will ALWAYS be posted in my Blogger blog too. So if you already subscribe to my regular blog then you will see the updates anyway. You don't ever need to worry about the StudioWaves.libsyn.com webpage!

• And finally, I'm going to try and figure out how to embed the audio in the blog post itself. I've seen podcasts that just have a little player included right in the post, so I'll try to figure that out!

Thanks for reading. And listening! In case you missed it, the very first podcast is here Listen Now.

StudioWaves Podcast 1:
So what *does* an artist talk to herself about in the studio?

My first ever podcast! StudioWaves. (art studio, sound waves, sea waves, get it?) My voice is a bit echoey, sorry about that. I'm just working with my built in microphone at the moment. A bigt shout out to Greg and Tonya from Dancing with Elephants for tempting me into this brave new world.

Chelsea Art Fair, 24-27 April, London
Skylark Gallery
My Nereids paintings
About the Nereids in Greek mythology
Dancing with Elephants
Flick, software for artists
Audacity


Theme tune from OPUZZ
Sound effect "Water" by tigersound on The Freesound Project