#112 - Portraits with Purpose: Art, Motherhood and Finding Your Way Back to Yourself - Leanne Pearce
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#112 - Portraits with Purpose: Art, Motherhood and Finding Your Way Back to Yourself - Leanne Pearce
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She was told art wouldn't pay. So she did the sensible thing.
Years working in a law firm - capable, competent, but never quite in her own vision. She was good at it. And something was always slightly off.
It took a power cut, a redundancy, and a breastfeeding epiphany to crack things open. And she found her way back.
Leanne Pearce is a portrait artist, twice shortlisted for Portrait Artist of the Year, and the woman who walks into the moments most of us look away from - the ICU, the hospice, the families mid-grief.
She calls it care work. After this conversation, you'll understand exactly why.
In this episode:→ The creative identity she was talked out of - and how she reclaimed it→ What it actually costs to sit with grieving families and turn that into art→ The empathy that is both her greatest gift and her greatest challenge→ How she built her most important work in the margins of motherhood
For the woman who was told to be practical - and never quite stopped hearing the pull of something more.