Lately I have had a few people ask me about
my art studio and how it is set up. I really don’t think my studio is anything
special but after several requests for a post about my ‘creative space’ I
though I would give you a bit of a tour of the highlights.
I have always had a deep fascination with
the workspaces of creative people. I love to trawl through books about artists
and designers where it shows them in their work space. From paint splattered
chaos to squeaky clean minimalistic white walled rooms, each studio reflects
the artist who works in them and I think the studio speaks worlds about that
person and how they work.
So what does my studio say about me? Not
really sure. To be honest I don’t think I have been in my studio long enough to
give it my personal stamp yet and make it my own. I moved into this studio at
the beginning of the year and I am still setting things up so that they work
for me. My studio is at home and this has it’s
perks and it’s downfalls but so far it’s working well and I love waking up and
coming into the sun filled studio, opening the big glass double doors and
having a cup of tea on the little balcony before I start work for the day.
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| The thread draw |
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| part of my work desk |
I have two tables in the studio. A smaller
one where I sew and then I have a big table that I use for large drawings,
mounting of the artwork and anything messy like resin casting and painting. It
is great to have the two zones as I am often juggling a few projects at once
and this lets me sew on one table and mount on the other table without having
to constantly clean up after myself.
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| Part of my ever evolving inspiration wall |
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| samples of work that may never go any further than this wall |
My inspiration wall is constantly changing
and evolving based on the projects I am working on at the time. I also pin up
little samples and prototypes as I make them, I think it is always good to have
your work around you so you can see where you have been and where you are
going.
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| part of the library |
Books are a great resource that I come back
to time and time again for inspiration with my work. As you can see I have
quite the library going and I am constantly adding to the collection. I have
never been able to walk past a great book – buying books is my little luxury. Recently
I organized my books into rainbow order on the shelves (must have been a quiet
day in the studio). Funnily enough I now find them easier in this shelving
format than when they were organized by genre or alphabetically. I guess it
goes without saying that I am a visual person.
