Interviews

The painter of urban desolation explains why boredom is essential for painting and how motorbikes relieve the monotony

The Lahore-born painter keeps his spacious New York studio scrupulously clean and tidy – but he’ll never sleep in it again, all the same

Renowned for his quirky drawings, the artist extols the virtues of his paint-spattered sink and the benefits of a good nap

The artist’s studio in Mumbai is animated by the rumbling of the railway – and home to a collection of cough-syrup bottles

The conceptual artist is careful about who he invites to the studio, but counts George Michael as one of his most interesting visitors

The painter can’t listen to music when she works because she can’t get the songs out of her head – so it’s baseball on the radio instead

The duo’s east London studio is, they say, the world’s cleanest, so that they can be as dirty as they want in their art

The painter prefers her studio to be tidy, but it doesn’t stay that way for long – and she’s completely oblivious to the smell of turpentine and oil paint

These days the California-based artist works nomadically in the Mojave Desert – which means playing host to the odd mountain lion

The Glasgow-based artist misses bumping into her studio neighbours in the corridors – but has a bag of volcanic ash to keep her company these days

The UK-based painter opens the door on his studio in Bath – where he sometimes dons a suit to work, he says, if not a tie