You can never have enough space, right? Yet, the more space you have, the more stuff you seem to collect.
I think an artist needs nature, rather than a city, to focus, create, and make art.
My studio is in Giggleswick, North Yorkshire, UK. I have access to a sunny ceramics studio as part of a one-year residency program facilitated by a lovely old school that was founded in the sixteenth century.
“The best part about my studio is the freedom of having my own space to do as I please. I enjoy not having to worry about creating an unholy mess and the chance to make radical alterations at 1 in the morning after a trip to the pub.”
There is a nondescript metal door that leads upstairs to the Side Door Studio. For me, it’s the equivalent of Platform 9 3/4 in Harry Potter. It seems like a magical transformation going from the outside world into a place where artists work.
While I’m working, I prefer to connect with everything that happens around me in a natural way—to the painting itself and with anything that happens around it.
I live in Alaior, a small town on the island of Minorca, off the coast of Spain. I came here at the beginning of 2008 to work at the International Printmaking Center Xalubinia, and it’s here where I’ve set up my studio…
The Studio Project II offers a glimpse of artists’ studios outside the US. Painter Geoff Farnsworth’s studio is in St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada.
A list of one hundred insights gleaned from a career training artists…
While researching material for A History of Art: A Timeline of the Art Students League of New York, I became curious about instructional art books written by artists who taught or lectured at the school over the past 138 years. How well could written language encapsulate the visual principles, techniques, and materials that art students observed…