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Studios of Their Own: Where Great Artists Work
Studios of Their Own travels around the world examining the unique spaces, habits and rituals of over 50 famous artists.

From Picasso, to Hockney, to Caravaggio, discover the eclectic creative spaces used by artistic visionaries, brought to life with evocative illustrations.

Crossing centuries, continents and genres, Alex Johnson explores these artists’ workspaces and habits. How do they practise their craft? What do they look for in a studio? Do they work in silence or with music… in a shared space or in solitude? How do they harness the light? And how do their physical spaces affect and inspire their output?

This striking collection focuses on more than 50 international artists, including:
  • Claude Monet, who created an inspirational garden in which to work en plein air and paint his famous water lilies
  • Frida Kahlo, forced to work from her bed, inspired by the lucky talismans she surrounded herself with
  • Jean-Michel Basquiat, working in an old stable, could turn anything into canvas, walking and lying on his works as he created them
  • Lee Krasner’s art dramatically changed when she moved from her small studio into the larger, light-filled one that she took over when her husband, Jackson Pollock, died

In looking at the working lives of our favourite artists, readers will be transported to other worlds, as well as gaining a deeper insight into the creative process.

Also in the series: Rooms of Their Own: Where Great Writers Write.
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Studios of Their Own: Where Great Artists Work
Studios of Their Own travels around the world examining the unique spaces, habits and rituals of over 50 famous artists.

From Picasso, to Hockney, to Caravaggio, discover the eclectic creative spaces used by artistic visionaries, brought to life with evocative illustrations.

Crossing centuries, continents and genres, Alex Johnson explores these artists’ workspaces and habits. How do they practise their craft? What do they look for in a studio? Do they work in silence or with music… in a shared space or in solitude? How do they harness the light? And how do their physical spaces affect and inspire their output?

This striking collection focuses on more than 50 international artists, including:
  • Claude Monet, who created an inspirational garden in which to work en plein air and paint his famous water lilies
  • Frida Kahlo, forced to work from her bed, inspired by the lucky talismans she surrounded herself with
  • Jean-Michel Basquiat, working in an old stable, could turn anything into canvas, walking and lying on his works as he created them
  • Lee Krasner’s art dramatically changed when she moved from her small studio into the larger, light-filled one that she took over when her husband, Jackson Pollock, died

In looking at the working lives of our favourite artists, readers will be transported to other worlds, as well as gaining a deeper insight into the creative process.

Also in the series: Rooms of Their Own: Where Great Writers Write.
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Studios of Their Own travels around the world examining the unique spaces, habits and rituals of over 50 famous artists.

From Picasso, to Hockney, to Caravaggio, discover the eclectic creative spaces used by artistic visionaries, brought to life with evocative illustrations.

Crossing centuries, continents and genres, Alex Johnson explores these artists’ workspaces and habits. How do they practise their craft? What do they look for in a studio? Do they work in silence or with music… in a shared space or in solitude? How do they harness the light? And how do their physical spaces affect and inspire their output?

This striking collection focuses on more than 50 international artists, including:
  • Claude Monet, who created an inspirational garden in which to work en plein air and paint his famous water lilies
  • Frida Kahlo, forced to work from her bed, inspired by the lucky talismans she surrounded herself with
  • Jean-Michel Basquiat, working in an old stable, could turn anything into canvas, walking and lying on his works as he created them
  • Lee Krasner’s art dramatically changed when she moved from her small studio into the larger, light-filled one that she took over when her husband, Jackson Pollock, died

In looking at the working lives of our favourite artists, readers will be transported to other worlds, as well as gaining a deeper insight into the creative process.

Also in the series: Rooms of Their Own: Where Great Writers Write.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780711293793
Publisher: Frances Lincoln
Publication date: 09/17/2024
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 192
File size: 25 MB
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About the Author

Alex Johnson is a journalist, blogger and author of Rooms of Their Own: Where Great Writers Write, Improbable Libraries and Bookshelf. He lives in St Albans, London with his wife, three children, and plenty of books from all over the world.James Oses is an artist and illustrator from south London. He specialises in painting interesting places, often working in ink and watercolours. His work has been published in The New Yorker, The Guardian and Radio Times. Other clients include Borough Market, Marks & Spencer and the Poetry Society. He also teaches at Middlesex University.
Alex Johnson runs the successful and unique shedworking site www.shedworking.co.uk which has been acclaimed by online and traditional media across the world. He works as a freelance journalist for the Independent's online site and as an editorial consultant for several national charities. A co-organiser of the annual National Shed Week and judge of the Shed of the Year competition, he lives in St Albans and has had a garden office for five years.

Table of Contents

Hilma af Klint (1862–1944), Swedish
Francis Bacon (1909–92), Irish
Jean-Michel Basquiat (1960–88), American
Vanessa Bell (1907–61), English, and Duncan Grant (1885–1978), Scottish
Louise Bourgeois (1911–2010), French
Constantin Brâncuși (1876–1957), Romanian
Alexander Calder (1898–1976), American
Caravaggio (1571–1610), Italian
Paul Cézanne (1839–1906), French
Marc Chagall (1887–1985), Russian
Giorgio de Chirico (1888–1978), Italian
Winston Churchill (1874–1965), English
Salvador Dalí (1904–89), Spanish
Eugène Delacroix (1798–1863), French
Albrecht Dürer (1471–1528), German
Tracey Emin (1963–), English
Thomas Gainsborough (1727–88), English
Artemisia Gentileschi (1593–1653), Italian
Keith Haring (1958–90), American
Barbara Hepworth (1903–75), English
David Hockney (1937–), English
Hokusai (1760–1849), Japanese
Japser Johns (1930–), American
Frida Kahlo (1907–1954), Mexican
Paul Klee (1879–1940), Swiss
Käthe Kollwitz (1867–1945), German
Yayoi Kusama (1929–), Japanese
Tove Jansson (1914–2001), Finnish
René Magritte (1898–1967), Belgian
Michelangelo (1475–1564), Italian
Joan Miró (1893–1983), Spanish
Joan Mitchell (1925–92), American
Amedeo Modigliani (1884–1920), Italian
Piet Mondrian (1872–1944), Dutch
Claude Monet (1840–1926), French
Henry Moore (1898–1986), English
Sir Sidney Nolan (1917–92), Australian
Georgia O’Keeffe (1887–1986), American
Pablo Picasso (1881–1973), Spanish
Jackson Pollock (1912–56) and Lee Krasner (1908–84), American
Raphael (1483–1520), Italian
Eric Ravilious (1903–42) and Edward Bawden (1903–89), English
Paula Rego (1935–2022), Portuguese
Rembrandt (1606–1669), Dutch
Auguste Rodin (1840–1917), French
Posy Simmonds (1945–), English
Joaquín Sorolla (1863–1923), Spanish
Andy Warhol (1928–87), American
Suzanne Valadon (1865–1938), French
Vincent van Gogh (1853–1890), Dutch
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