Art Making & Studio Spaces: Unleash Your Inner Artist: An Intimate Look at 31 Creative Work Spaces

by Lynne Perrella

Art Making and Studio Spaces is a visual studio tour, an opportunity to turn the key and discover the inner workings of artists in their ultra-personal, unique workspaces. The mission of the book is to look inside studios in progress, amidst the throes of the artmaking process, and to investigate the thoughts of the artists within. This book reveals the interplay between artist and studio, and explores how each workspace reflects a different, distinctive creative journey. Photography by Sarah Blodgett, plus contributed photos by some of the artists, combines with personal insights to provide an incomparable studio tour that will inspire you to create your own private work space. Pages from Lynne Perrella’s art journal are included, to give further insight into this bottomless topic of "art and where it happens."

Genres: Art

Paperback

First published January 1, 2010

Reviews

[Kristy · Rating 4 out of 5]

It was nice to see that other people's creative spaces are as cluttered and colorful as mine.

[Laura Ostermeyer · Rating 5 out of 5]

A glorious and inspiring book that will, if you have not already done so, make you want to create your own art studio/place to create! The photos are delightful and the insight about the artists is fascinating.

[Carolyn · Rating 3 out of 5]

Tho' I've put this on my "artsy how-to" shelf, this is more of a coffee table book, and while I enjoyed all the photos of artists' work areas, my main complaint is that the "Intimate Look" in the title means that there are often a lot of tight close ups of small sections of each space vs. one wide shot, so that it's hard to get a sense of each workspace's layout. On the plus, side I'm inspired to arrange my clutter more artistically :D

[Am Y · Rating 3 out of 5]

A compilation of different artists' workspaces. Photos are quite good; you do get a sense of what it feels like to be there yourself. The selection was also quite varied. There were some exotic-themed studios, some really messy & eccentric ones, and some simple Scandinavian- & minimalist-influenced ones. I would have liked captions for the photos though - in 2 or 3 pictures I had no idea what I was looking at. On the whole this was an inspiring and uplifting read.

[Rachel · Rating 3 out of 5]

I'm fair green with envy at many of these studios, with their warm clutter, shelves of books, comfy chairs, wonderful worktables, and storage systems. I would have liked to see the artists themselves at work in them, though.

[Jennifer · Rating 1 out of 5]

I was very disappointed. I was hoping to see how the various artists laid out their workshops. In a few of the pix, you could get an idea, but mostly it was colorful pictures of collections and storage areas.

[C · Rating 4 out of 5]

Loved this! Full of inspiration.

[Merilyn · Rating 5 out of 5]

I love this book. Uplifting and inspirational.

[Debbie Hoskins · Rating 4 out of 5]

Fun, pictorial book about different kinds of artist studios. The spaces invite creativity. I also liked the music studio.

[Tristy · Rating 5 out of 5]

Very inspiring to see where other artists work and how they set things up.

[Dayna Collins · Rating 5 out of 5]

Fabulous photos of artists' studios.