Alice is away this week and I am chatting with American artist Jacqui Fehl who is creative, kind, wise, and funny in equal measure, and who describes her work as "a blend of grunge, whimsy and outsider.”

Influenced by music, lyrics, feelings, stories, other artists, and the materials themselves, Jacqui’s art is as varied as her ever-changing hair – sometimes light, humorous and colourful, while at other times serious with a touch of darkness.In this episode, Jacqui and I dive deeply into issues around the creative process, scaling up our work, finding our personal voice, and how we define success in our art careers. Part of the conversation centres on this quote by Brian Eno:

"It quite frequently happens that you’re just treading water for quite a long time. Nothing really dramatic seems to be happening. … And then suddenly everything seems to lock together in a different way. It’s like a crystallization point where you can’t detect any single element having changed. There’s a proverb that says that the fruit takes a long time to ripen, but it falls suddenly … And that seems to be the process." 

Here are just a few of Jacqui's paintings:

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"Monkeys Spinning Monkeys" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License