Show Notes
What dictates how you create? Practicality, colour, luminosity, the way it feeeeeelsss, the tools you use, the space you have?
How do you create? The beginning is tricky/easy/I stare at the blank page for days - delete as appropriate.
What do you want to create? Billboard size or thumbnail miniatures? Does this feel like a quiz from an 80s teen magazine yet? We don’t have all the answers, but Karen and Gaynor can tell you what we do and why. The mistakes we make (Gaynor) and the way we teach (Karen).
Now tell us yours!
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Links and mentions:
Image Photo by Jennie Razumnaya on Unsplash
Gaynor’s reel
Sketch and explore com https://www.sketchandexplore.com
@manchesterartfair
Women’s Business Club https://womensbusiness.club/awards
@karengeorgeart @gaynorljart
@artchatterpodcast About the podcast
Artchatter: Podcast of the Year Award Runner Up Women’s Business Awards 2025
https://womensbusiness.club/awards
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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