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CREATIVE CURRENTS

What is your ALEX DUNCAN SANDRA

favourite thing My studio is my CAVANAGH

sanctuary; when I
What isn’t! I have a
walk through those
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doors I get to drop all ON studio for works on ON
paper with a large flat
studio?
about your my titles and just be me. It’s messy table for watercolours and an old

and wild in there, and I’m able to get
drafting table for drawing, some
lost in my creativity for hours. shelves, a printer, and magnetic strips

on the walls to hold work in progress.

I also have a studio for oil painting on

canvas with three large easels and

MICHAEL several small ones.

Featured artists share details of their KOPPLSTÄTTER

My studio is six metres
cherished sanctuaries. From the light in ON high with skylights,

their space to the tools that feel second p62 so I have fantastic PAUL

nature, read what inspires them in their sunlight, an airy space and the MCCLOSKEY

creative workspaces feeling of freedom, plus it has the My studio is at the

atmosphere of a supercool gallery. back of my house ON

with a view of my p26

IPEK ERGEN garden and across fields

What I like most MOLLY MCCALL and meadows. Working on my

about my studio is LIBBY SIPE I love the light and paintings with music playing in the

its cosiness and its background, even during the winter
ON I love that my studio when I open my doors
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ON
The old trees that surround my is in my home. the outside comes p90 the outside world. Painting by its
inside. I sometimes
Although it’s small,
studio space and the birds singing in the rafters, very ON work outside, just to get closer to disposition can be isolating and
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early in the morning make it a very warm in the summer and cold in the nature and feel a sense of expanded indeed a lonely pursuit, therefore

peaceful place. I also love the smell winter, it suits my needs as an artist space. My studio has two levels; the this connection is vital for me.

of wood and the welcoming sunlight and mother. My daughter will come top includes my art library, desk, and

that fills the space.
up and start working on a piece of darkroom, the bottom level is where

her own as I work, or she’ll ask about I keep all of my supplies and is the

a particular thing I’m doing. I love main work space. My dogs are my

sharing my passion with her, and studio assistants as well, which

seeing her curiosity blossom. brings me lots of joy and laughter.

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