Messy desks welcome. We've seen your art — now show us where the sausage gets made. The paint-stained kitchen table. The editing cave with three monitors and no sunlight. The corner of your bedroom where masterpieces happen between laundry piles. Studios, closets, garages, balconies — if you create there, we want to see it. No setup is too small, too messy, or too weird. Post a photo or a carousel of your creative space. Let the banter flow from there.
A couple weeks ago I posted a picture of my studio a couple days after it had been cleaned up for a photoshoot. Since I got several comments about how clean it was, I thought I would post an image after it had returned to normal.
Peek inside the workspaces where masterpieces were born.
From Basquiat's paint-splattered Lower East Side loft to Matisse painting from his bed when he could barely move — these studios tell you more about the artist than any museum placard ever could.
The lineup: Frida Kahlo's studio (reportedly always smelled like Fabuloso), Matisse working from bed in his final years, Picasso surrounded by chaos, Dalí being Dalí, Basquiat in his iconic NYC loft, Francis Bacon's legendarily messy setup, and Giacometti — somehow sculpting in a full suit and tie.
What strikes you looking at these spaces is how different they all are. Some are meticulous. Some look like a paint factory exploded. Bacon's studio was so chaotic that when they preserved it after his death, they catalogued over 7,000 items crammed into a tiny room.
And yet every single one of these spaces produced work that changed art history.
There's no "right" way for a studio to look. The only thing that matters is that it works for you.
What does YOUR studio look like right now? Drop a photo — messy, clean, cramped, or sprawling. We want to see where the magic happens. 👇
I’m an ambulatory creator, whilst I have a dedicated space, I like to spread the love….
This Quonset Hut is perfect for encaustic with it's built in ventilation.
I have a second bedroom but the light is dismal so I paint in the dining room with a nice view of the Intracoastal boat traffic. I love my daylight lamp which lets me work after I’ve lost natural light. Storage is my biggest issue.
The Maker
Every photograph begins in the field, standing in real light along the Texas Gulf Coast and beyond.
But the work does not end there
Each image is edited carefully, prepared as a fine-art print, and for my limited editions the frame itself is handcrafted in the 683 workshop.
From shoreline to workshop to your wall.
Real Places
Real Light
Real Craft
Human Made for You
