Art Stories: The Official Podcast
Oct 9, 2026 · 50 min · 11 segments
In this episode of the Art Stories Podcast, hosted by Sky Lilah (@skylilah), we sit down with Sarah Phelps, a Canadian abstract artist whose bold, vibrant paintings are shaped by a remarkable dual…
Sarah PhelpsGuest
Sky LilahHost
And what do you do when you're in your studio space? Are you listening to things or is it just silence? What is the actual experience that you are?
I have my noise-canceling headphones on and I'm listening to usually indie music.
Sometimes podcasts, but I find my work when I'm listening to music, I feel like it raises my frequency.
Do you, do you ever come back and look at your work and are kind of surprised? Like, do you zone out so much that you kind of don't even know what you're doing anymore? And then you come back, you're like, Oh, wow.
Um, Sometimes I'll come back to a piece and once it's dry and it's upright, it looks different.
But yeah, I mean, the best pieces, I always say the best pieces... that where I look at them and think, wow, I can't believe like I created that, um, are the ones where I'm not thinking about it at all.
I was just going to ask, how do you trust that? Like, how did you train yourself to express in that way?
Um, It's sort of, if you asked my friends, they would probably say it's my personality.
I do believe that for every piece that any artist creates, there's someone that's meant to have that piece.
And what do you do when you're in your studio space? Are you listening to things or is it just silence? What is the actual experience that you are?
I have my noise-canceling headphones on and I'm listening to usually indie music.
Sometimes podcasts, but I find my work when I'm listening to music, I feel like it raises my frequency.
Do you, do you ever come back and look at your work and are kind of surprised? Like, do you zone out so much that you kind of don't even know what you're doing anymore? And then you come back, you're like, Oh, wow.
Um, Sometimes I'll come back to a piece and once it's dry and it's upright, it looks different.
But yeah, I mean, the best pieces, I always say the best pieces... that where I look at them and think, wow, I can't believe like I created that, um, are the ones where I'm not thinking about it at all.
I was just going to ask, how do you trust that? Like, how did you train yourself to express in that way?
Um, It's sort of, if you asked my friends, they would probably say it's my personality.
I do believe that for every piece that any artist creates, there's someone that's meant to have that piece.
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