artchatter with Gaynor Leverett-Jaques & Karen George

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
Gaynor Leverett-Jaques
www.gaynorljart.com

It can be isolated, isolating and a bit lonely being an artist. Running a business completely alone can also be a bit daunting, tricky to navigate, and overwhelming at times. 
What to do? Well, it may be time to find some support, other art friends, make connections, find your online tribe or an actual real life community. 
Both Karen and Gaynor have benefited from widening their circles and consider how, despite their different approaches, they’ve both enjoyed the chance to share and learn from other artists. 
It’s your turn, how do you connect? 
So do hit the subscribe button on whichever platform you listen to Artchatter on, it’s easier than marking your calendar! 
Thank you, too, to all who listen, DM, send messages and have made the last rapidly approaching five years so much fun with #artchatterpodcast
Sign up to receive Karen’s Studio News https://www.karengeorgeart.co.uk/ and Gaynor’s emails https://gaynorljart.com/pages/contact

Links and mentions:
Photo credit Park Troopers on Unsplash
@ginabelfordart 
Sketch and Explore Club with Karen George 
Carol Baines insta https://www.instagram.com/carolbaines100?igsh=MWZ3ODRuZHg2cmttMQ==
Rae Melody https://www.instagram.com/raemelodyart?igsh=d2M2MDh0dTFxaGdu
Ruth Thorp Studios
@https://www.instagram.com/ruththorpstudio?igsh=ZGdjaWkwNTE2NW94
https://ruththorpstudio.co.uk
@bronjonesart 
@susannahcrookart
@sophiepiddock 
@camvalleyartstrail
@katewestcott3
@springcheltenham 
@sixteengallery

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
https://www.sketchandexplore.com@thesanctuary_gallery
Gaynor Leverett-Jaques
www.gaynorljart.com

Right time, right place… sunshine, food and the perfect drop of water, add in the ideal companion or two… violà, success! Plants and humans are the same in that respect. 

What fires your imagination? Are you grabbing the right things to help yourself flourish, chatting to those who encourage growth? What helps you to get where you’re going. Today Karen and Gaynor are giddy about the paths they’re taking and how they’re helping themselves to grow in the right direction. Are you ready to plant seeds? 

Now, as always, we invite you to tell us how you get things going, there’s lots more to chat about. 

So do hit the subscribe button on whichever platform you listen to Artchatter on, it’s easier than marking your calendar! 

Thank you, too, to all who listen, DM, send messages and have made the last rapidly approaching FIVE years so much fun with #artchatterpodcast

Sign up to receive Karen’s Studio News  https://www.karengeorgeart.co.uk/ and Gaynor’s emails https://gaynorljart.com/pages/contact

Links and mentions:

Photo by Julia Raasch on Unsplash

Fearne Cotton Happy Place Podcast
Liz Earle How to Age book 

Gloucestershire Cheese Rolling

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

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

Sign up to receive Karen’s Studio News  https://www.karengeorgeart.co.uk/ and Gaynor’s emails https://gaynorljart.com/pages/contact

Links and mentions:

Photo by Julia Raasch on Unsplash

Napoleon Hill.

Fearne Cotton. 

Karen George Sketch & Explore ⁠
Faye Bridgwater 
Harry Baker - Unashamed 

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

Episode 121 - our approaches to being artists

My goodness... We've talked about what being an artist means, and how labels like "artist" might (or might not!) be useful. Now it's time to focus in on our own practices. What makes the two of us artists? And what does the practice of art mean to us?

Do hit the subscribe button on whichever platform you listen to Artchatter on, it’s easier than marking your calendar!

Sign up to receive Karen’s Studio News  https://www.karengeorgeart.co.uk/ and Gaynor’s emails https://gaynorljart.com/pages/contact

Links and mentions:
[TBC, as Gaynor is on her hols! - yours humbly, nobly, kindly, dashingly etc. - the Editor]

@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