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- 'My studio is in my head' Aoife Nolan shares her creative process [13]
Aoife Nolan's successfully operated her own fashion business for over a decade before going to art college. Aoife describes this change like a switch, like shutting one door and opening another. In the Crawford College of Art and Design, she was awarded the RHA student access programme and her graduate show received several awards. She has exhibited in Ireland and in the Endicott College, Massachusetts in the US.
Aoife describes her work as the merging of interior and exterior landscape and her work is inspired our need for connection and for connection to the earth.
Aoife's practice includes experimental processes, such as corroding copper, making her own pigments from natural materials and harvesting rainwater.
Aoife chats to Éadaoin about:
- thinking like an artist
- making the decision to go to art college
- the experience of art college during Covid
- Her experimental processes
- Natural materials
- How she makes copper ink
- Using seaweed as a pigment and for printing
- Her creative process both outside and in the studio
- Her favourite brushes
- Her favourite paper
- Inspiration
- The best advice she received
- Her advice for anyone thinking of going to art college
- Her upcoming exhibition
Full show notes and images are available.
See Aoife's work on Instagram @aoife_nolan_
Contact Éadaoin on Instagram @eadaoin_glynn and www.eadaoinglynn.com
1 hr 7 min - My creative time is precious - my top tools to minimise admin time [12]
My time in the studio is my most precious resource. When you're an artist, you're self employed. You probably have a day job. Your time in the studio, your creative time is really, really precious.
There's so many things you have to do apart from the creative side. There's so much admin involved in being an artist - managing and tracking applications, submissions, sales, paintings and marketing.
In this podcast, I share my top admin tools. I'm not into perfectionism. I want to do admin as efficiently and quickly as possible. These are the tools I use every day so I can spend less time on my laptop and have more time in the studio.
- Artwork Archive
- Evernote
- Canva
- Email
- iPhone
- MailChimp
- Excel
Go to www.artworkarchive.com/warrior for a 20% discount and to try it out for free.
Read the show notes for more detailed tips.
Contact Éadaoin on instagram @eadaoin_glynn and through her website www.eadaoinglynn.com
13 min - Eamon Colman painter - 'all paintings are political and autobiographical' [11]
Eamon Colman grew up in Dublin, Ireland in a family of painters. He left school and starting painting in a spare room in his parents house, he took art classes by night at National College or Art and Design and studying horticulture by day. He has had a professional art career since 1979. Eamon was only 19 when he had his first solo show. Since then he's had over 40 solo shows in Ireland and internationally.
He was chair of the The Artists' Association of Ireland and president of the the European council of artists. He was elected a member of Aosdana in 2009 in recognition of his outstanding contribution to the arts in Ireland. He has won many awards and his work is in many major collections.
Eamon is represented by the Solmon Fine Art Gallery, Dublin, Hambly & Hambly in the UK and the Stern Gallery in Vienna. He lives in rural Kilkenny where he has converted an old barn into a studio.
Eamon chats to Éadaoin about :
- How he views himself as a worker who happens to be a painter
- The importance of tenacity
- The challenge of making a living as a creative person
- The gallery system
- His studio practice and the importance of privacy in the studio
- Planning, balance and composition
- The rare magic when paintings happen
- Overworking paintings
- Editing his work
- His love for paper
- Storing works in progress
- Writing and painting titles
- Sculpture helps his painting practice
- The importance of colour
- Having an art career
- Upcoming solo exhibition in the Butler Gallery
- How paintings are political and autobiographical
- His love of abstraction
- The importance of his garden
- Concern of climate change and the change he's seen in the environment in Kilkenny
- Beauty in his paintings
- The best advice he received
- His advice for emerging artists
- Mentoring as communication
- Instagram as a community
- His plans for an open call to his followers on Instagram
Full show notes are available
See more of Eamon's work:www.eamoncolman.com
Instagram: @eamon_colman
His galleries:
www.solomonfineart.ie
www.hamblyandhambly.com
www.sternstudio.at
Teaching:Eamon teaches at www.artform.ie
Contact Éadaoin on Instagram @eadaoin_glynn and her website www.eadaoinglynn.com
1 hr 21 min - I get up at 5am to paint - Sile Walsh visual artist shares her creative journey [10]
Waterford based visual artist, Sile Walsh, chats to host Éadaoin Glynn about the challenges of painting with raising young children, returning to painting after a hiatus and her experience with Sky Portrait and Landscape Artist of the Year.
Sile also talks about:
- The importance of drawing and life drawing in her practice
- How she draws inspiration from the sea and the sea swimming community
- Why she gets up at 5am to paint
- The evolution of her painting style away from form
- How her self portraits are guiding her
- Her favourite tools and paint
- The best advice she received
- Working on her self-confidence
- Her up-coming exhibitions
Full show notes available.
View Sile's work on Instagram: @silewalshartist and www.silewalshartist.com
Contact Éadaoin on Instagram: @eadaoin_glynn and www.eadaoinglynn.com
1 hr 18 min - Marketing for artists - why email works [9]
Artists are self employed. We make work and we hope to sell it! Marketing is important for artists. Marketing is about communicating, sharing who you are, what your work is about. It's about finding an audience. Email is a very simple and powerful way of connecting with people who are interested in your work.
Email marketing is very effective for many businesses, including artists!
In this episode, Éadaoin shares tips and simple actions you can implement immediately. She explains:
- Why email is effective
- How to collect emails
- How often to send emails
- How long do emails need to be
- Why links are powerful
- Content ideas
- Lead Magnets explained
- Unsubscribers
- Email providers
- Speedy email hack
- Subject line - why it's important
Let me know if you found this useful!
Follow Éadaoin on Instagram and on her website. Full show notes are available.
13 min - 8. Opportunities are out there - Maurice Quillinan, visual artist and curator shares his creative approach
"The opportunities are out there, and it's just a question of finding them and trying to take advantage of them." Limerick based visual artist and curator, Maurice Quillinan shares his thoughts on being an artist, his collaborative approach to work and curating, his studio practice and advice for emerging artists.
Maurice chats about:
- Art college
- the best part of being an artist
- the opportunities that are out there
- how he tries to make connections and new opportunities
- Art as a conversation
- the importance of always learning
- Why drawing is such an important part of his studio practice
- Why all painting is ultimately abstract
- His approach to curating
- Why he loves brushes
- His studio and his approach to painting
- Editing his work
- Why he loves collaborating
- How travel feeds his art
- Time management and being selective about projects
- His philosophy
- the best advice he ever received
- His advice for emerging artists
Full show notes and images available.
Maurice Quillinan is on Instagram and his website www.mauricequillinan.net
Contact Éadaoin on Instagram and her website.
1 hr 21 min - 7. Why don't you do it yourself? Visual artist and curator Dermot Browne shares his creative journey
Visual artist and curator Dermot Browne has an entrepreneurial approach to creating art spaces.
"Curators live in museums. They have jobs and titles..I'm an artist who wants to see certain exhibitions happen"
Highlights of this episode include:
- the appeal of abstraction
- his approach to painting
- Using collage elements
- his studio and studio practice
- the importance of building an audience and a platform to sell work
- music as an influence
- how he mixes paint
- time management and how time away from you art can enrich it
- balancing painting, curating and entrepreneurial projects
- the importance of solo exhibitions
- how he selects work for solo exhibitions
- how he hangs exhibitions
- his least favourite part of being an artist
- his thoughts on applications and 'art speak'
- how he believes procrastination doesn't exist
- his attitude to rejection
- The best advice he received
- His advice for emerging artists
- Upcoming solo exhibition in Crane Visual
- Three new exhibition spaces: Crane Visual, Richmond Revival and the One Space.
You can find Dermot on Instagram @dermot_browne_artist and his website.
Detailed show notes with images available .
Contact host Éadaoin Glynn on instagram @eadaoin_glynn and through her website www.eadaoinglynn.com
1 hr 35 min - You can't get a 'Yes' without risking a 'No' - tips for managing open calls and rejection
There are two sides to being an artist:
- You want to spend as much time as you can creating work, investing in your learning and development and getting as good as you can.
- You also need to put your work out into the world, if you want it to be seen, to be discovered. Open calls are an important way of doing this.
Why enter open calls?
- Open calls are a level playing field.
- I view them as an opportunity and I'm grateful they're there.
- Builds CV
Where do you find open calls?
- Google art open calls,
- website resources online,
- Instagram,
- follow local galleries on Instagram and join their mailing lists.
- In Ireland, Visual Artists Ireland (VAI) list open calls.
My approach
- You can't get a yes without risking a no.
- Each no is getting you closer to your next yes.
- By entering open calls you're part of the art game. You're taking a chance, you're being brave, you're a warrior.
- Even with rejection, your work has been evaluated and seen by a curator/jurist
- Rejection does not necessarily mean that your work is not good.
- There are always more submissions than space to exhibit. Odds of success are always low. Maybe your work is too large, or does not suit the theme, or does not work with the other pieces selected.
- Each rejection is a badge of your courage and bravery.
Tips
- It's very easy to miss a deadline. There are a lot of open calls
- I add them to a spreadsheet by date of submission. I check this spreadsheet about once a week to see the dates of upcoming submissions.
- Evaluate open call based on quality of opportunity, time involved, cost, geographical location
- Local opportunities are generally worth entering. If you're successful it's easier to send work and attend the exhibition opening.
- I colour-code submissions: open call entered - amber, yes - green, no - red.
- Tracking helps me depersonalise the process and monitor over time
- I make a note of the paintings I've submitted (to reserve them until notification)
- Paintings successful in one open call may often be successful in others
Getting a yes
- All the sweeter after all the rejection
- Gives a huge boost to confidence
- Try to attend exhibition opening (another opportunity)
- Builds CV
Have you any interesting open call stories?
Full show notes available. See Éadaoin's work on Instagram
18 min - It's never too late to become an artist - how Barbara Kenneally went from medical scientist to glass artist
It's never too late to become an artist - from medical scientist to glass artist, Barbara Kenneally shares her creative journey.
- What it was like to go art college after retiring from science
- the connection between her scientific research and her glass art
- her interest in surfaces and what lies beneath
- the inspiration of the old mine shafts in West Cork
- the different kinds of glass
- her favourite glass
- Her process
- Finishing and displaying glass
- her photography
- her studio and studio practice
- how she records her process
- her least favourite part of being an artist
- her attitude to rejection
- being hacked on Instagram
- The best advice she received
- her art influences
- Upcoming exhibitions in Canvas International Art Fair, Venice and the International Biennale of Glass, Bulgaria.
Full show notes and images available.
you can see Barbara's work on instagram and her www.barbarakenneally.com
Get in touch with host Éadaoin Glynn on instagram and her website
46 min - Instagram for artists, why it still works and how to use it, 18 quick and easy tips to up your Instagram game!
Instagram is still one of the best ways for artists to share their work. Éadaoin Glynn shares 18 quick and easy tips for artists that you can implement immediately! Read a more detailed explanation in my blog and see how I use Instagram on @eadaoin_glynn
- Don't worry about how many followers you have and the 'algorithm'. Engagement is more important than how many followers you have.
- Make sure you have a public account - not private. Implement Instagram's two-factor authentication.
- Your Instagram handle or username and your photo. Make sure your actual name is somewhere so people can search for you.
- Your bio appears under your name and picture. Update it as often as you like. Don't make it too long.
- Instagram gives you one link for free. Use it! If you want to share several links, use something like linktr.ee.
- Develop your Instagram voice. Share what you're comfortable with. Let people get to know the person behind the painting.
- Be consistent. Show up on Instagram.
- Manage your time. Don't spend too long scrolling.
- Post ideas for artists - a painting, your studio, you holding a painting, palette, paints, brushes, tools. Archive any posts you don't like any more.
- Hashtags: Instagram allows you a maximum of 30. Add a few and choose smaller hashtags.
- Add a location to a post, either a geographical location (e.g. Dublin, Ireland) or something evocative ( e.g ' in my heart' 'in my studio' ).
- Check and reply to your comments. Say thank you!
- Stories are the circles at the top of your feed. They are more casual and intimate than your posts and disappear after 24 hours.
- You can save a story as a highlight. Highlights are the little circles at the top of grid under your bio.
- Reels - video is powerful. Try making a time-lapse video of a painting session.
- Reel cover - choose a still image from your video or a photo from your camera roll. Don't forget to check how the it looks in your grid post and adjust if needed.
- Community - be supportive, share artists' posts and exhibitions to your stories.
- Learn by doing. Don't overthink it, forget about being perfect. Have fun with it!
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