Episode 8: Painter Jude Rae on the still life and the artist's path The Writer’s Room with Charlotte Wood

What can a writer learn from the visual arts? Plenty, in Charlotte's case. In this episode, one of Australia's finest painters, Jude Rae, answers Charlotte's questions about the still life genre, and why it remains so compelling. Jude discusses how she likes to explore the spectrum between 'description' and abstraction, her search for 'density' within a picture, and how true beauty always involves some difficulty or pain. She and Charlotte discuss the artist's need to keep 'the stone in the shoe', how movement and energy can be found in stillness, and the tensions involved for an artist in 'pleasing' an audience. 

Picture by Maria Stoljar, host and producer of the Talking with Painters Podcast. Thanks to Maria for her kind permission to reproduce it.