In The Making is a Piperlime Studio podcast about creative work in transition. Through honest conversations, stories, and reflections, we explore what happens when artists, makers, and creative professionals outgrow old versions of themselves and begin shaping what comes next. This is a space for the long middle — the uncertain, revealing stretch where identity shifts, direction changes, and a more honest creative life starts to take form.
Formerly Rebel Artists Through Time.
Unscripted. Unrushed.
A coffee shop conversation with artists—
where the work, not the hype, takes the lead.
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Sometimes the work teaches you something about the subject. And sometimes it teaches you something about yourself.
After a recent conversation with mixed-media artist Estelle Gee for In The Making, I found myself thinking about what it means to begin something new later in life — and how creative work can reveal parts of ourselves we didn't necessarily know were there.
This Studio Note is about experience, curiosity, reinvention, and what happens when the work asks us to step into a slightly different version of ourselves.
In The Making is a Piperlime Studio podcast featuring conversations with working creatives navigating transition, reinvention, and sustainability in real time.
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11 Sept 2026
It's Never Too Late: Becoming an Artist with Estelle Gee
What happens when you finally have the time—and the courage—to take your creative life seriously?
Mixed-media artist Estelle Gee began pursuing art professionally after retirement, bringing a lifetime of experience, curiosity and resilience to the work. In this conversation, Estelle reflects on when she began calling herself an artist, the advantages of starting later in life and learning to cope with the rejection and uncertainty that accompany creative work.
She also shares how her previous career as a professional organizer unexpectedly shaped her artistic practice. Years spent helping people downsize taught her to recognize the beauty and potential in objects others were ready to discard. That instinct eventually inspired Bookish, her series of collages created from damaged books, vintage papers, book spines and other materials carrying traces of the past.
Estelle and Michele discuss:
When we earn the right to call ourselves artists
Why beginning later can be an advantage
The unexpected isolation of studio life
Finding community and constructive feedback
Handling rejection and continuing to believe in your work
Discovering the audience for an unconventional medium
Remaining curious and continuing to learn
Guest
Estelle Gee is a collage and mixed-media artist based near Prince Edward County, Ontario. Inspired by history, books and everyday beauty, she creates layered works using vintage papers, old photographs, fabric, book elements and other found materials.
Explore Estelle's work:
https://www.estellegeeart.com/ (https://www.estellegeeart.com/)
Follow Estelle on Instagram:
https://www.instagram.com/gee.estelle/ (https://www.instagram.com/gee.estelle/)
About the show
In the Making is a series of conversations with artists, makers and creative thinkers navigating change in real time. These are not success stories told from the finish line. They are honest conversations with people still in the work. Questioning, adapting, experimenting and finding their way forward. For anyone building a creative life in changing times.
A Piperlime Studio production.
https://piperlime.studio/ (https://piperlime.studio/)
Credits
Guest: Estelle Gee
Host: Michele Mauviel
Produced by Piperlime Studio
19 Jul 2026
Studio Note: The Quiet Cost of Not Sharing Your Work
Some of the most meaningful creative work quietly disappears. Not because it wasn't good enough, but because it was never collected, preserved, or shared.
In this Studio Note, Michele reflects on a conversation with brand strategies and storyteller Kevin Spreekmeester and the importance of keeping a record of the work we've made over the years. A portfolio isn't just a marketing tool. An archive isn't just a collection of old projects. They become a record of where we've been, how we've grown, and the path that shaped who we are as creatives.
When our work disappears, part of our story disappears with it.
Studio Notes are short reflections from In The Making exploring creativity, identity, and the ongoing process of becoming.
Hosted by Michele Mauviel.
Produced by Piperlime Studio.
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