This week I’m joined by two returning guests, Wendy Marinich and Lucy Hersey, who answered questions that have come in from listeners over the past year. Wendy is a West Australian painter who paints with a mid-century modern twist, drawing on nostalgia and experimenting with memory and colour. Lucy is a painter from Loch in regional Victoria who came to art from scientific research and now lives on a cattle farm, where she makes earth paintings by grinding local soil, rocks and clay into her own paint.
I enjoyed their conversation about how to find your people when you haven’t come through art school, whether imposter syndrome ever really goes away, and what to look for in a mentor. We also get into the pressure to make your work make sense as a neat story, how much of the messy, unfinished side of your practice to share, and how they’re thinking about AI and protecting their work online. We finish with pricing mistakes, moments of considering stepping back from being an artist, guilt and rest, and whether it’s possible to be ambitious without constantly feeling dissatisfied. I loved hearing where Wendy and Lucy agreed, the different ways they approached each question, and how openly they shared the less polished parts of their practices.
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You can find Wendy Marinich here on Instagram and here on her website
You can find Lucy Hersey here on Instagram and here on her website
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