Show Notes
Today is our editor’s birthday 🎈 sending him giant love, thanks and a big fat squishy mummy hug 😉
Now let’s get on with episode 122 of the pod…
Procrastination, manifesting, dancing around, considering it all, planning and everything else eventually needs to turn into action.
Let’s get on with it, shall we?
So do hit the subscribe button on whichever platform you listen to Artchatter on, it’s easier than marking your calendar!
Now, as always, we invite you to tell us how your has been, there’s lots more to chat about.
Now, as always, we invite you to tell us how you get things going, there’s lots more to chat about.
Thank you, too, to all who listen, DM, send messages and have made the last rapidly approaching FIVE years so much fun with #artchatterpodcast
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Napoleon Hill.
Fearne Cotton.
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About the podcast Artchatter: Podcast of the Year Award Runner Up Women’s Business Awards 2025
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Gaynor Leverett-Jaques and Karen George are both full time artists, living and working in South West of the UK, sharing lessons and experiences of the ups and downs of living their best artist lives.
You can find more about them and their work on their websites or by following them on instagram where they share their work and practice on a regular basis.
Karen George Art https://www.karengeorgeart.co.uk/ @karengeorgeart on instagram
Gaynor Leverett-Jaques https://www.gaynorljart.com/ @gaynorljart on instagram
Thanks always to our wonderful sound editor, Ben Leverett-Jaques, who also wrote and performs the opening song 'Strangler Fig'
Ben's IMBD page: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm7425880/ Ben's Music - Low Cinnabar: https://low-cinnabar.bandcamp.com/album/four-songs-from-the-tree
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