The elusive artist discourages visitors but enjoys the company of a mysterious wooden statue that was left behind by a previous occupant
The weird lighting in the artist’s studio sometimes makes her feel like she’s in tropical fish tank, but her dog Mary makes sure she gets out for walks every day
The interdisciplinary artist tries to find a balance between isolation and connection – and once tried to make friends with an imaginary pelican
The Jamaican-British artist has a penchant for picking up other people’s rubbish and falls in love with the collectors who come to see his work
The Swiss artist maintains a strict working schedule to make the most of the daylight hours and keeps the writings of W.G. Sebald and Patti Smith close to hand
The Miami-based artist isn't especially keen on visitors, but he has a television and an 18th-century cooling casket to keep him company
The Indian artist enjoys company while she’s working and even occasionally posts an open invitation on Instagram, encouraging visitors to drop by
The Malagasy artist is not nearly as minimal as his work might suggest – on an average day, his studio is filled with books, drawings, flowers and the smell of cigarettes
The Iranian artist takes time to settle into her space in the mornings and then becomes so immersed in her work that she forgets about lunch completely
The Philadelphia-based artist prefers the comforts of working at home, but she’s found the perfect compromise with a studio that has its own washing machine
The Japanese artist can’t imagine a more serene place than her studio in Paris, in a building she shares with more than 100 Tibetan artisans
The New York-based artist enjoys strolling to his studio at the weekends to work in a quiet, concentrated atmosphere
The New York-based artist cherishes her ongoing conversations with Cecilia Vicuña but is otherwise selective about who visits her sacred studio space
The American artist's studio is split across two rooms – an office and an atelier – in her apartment in Berlin. It is a space ruled by harmony, she says.
The atmosphere of the Paris-based artist’s studio depends on the work she is creating – at times it is a sanctuary and at others a battlefield
The Berlin-based artist sees no division between his life and work – his apartment is filled to the brim with artworks, books and the objects he collects
Once occupied by the artist Franz West, the painter's studio sits in the backyard of a former dairy and is filled with the scents of oil paint and flowers
The American artist divides his time between Venice Beach and New Mexico, with one studio in a church and the other in a former commercial laundry
The American artist accumulates a mass of materials while working but when she finishes a project, her space must be cleared to begin afresh
The Kazakh collective’s approach to making art involves walking and talking – and even singing – before anything concrete is created
The painter of bejewelled, fantastical scenes has created his very own urban paradise filled with birdsong and the delicate fragrances of seasonal blooms
The Brazilian artist works with materials he retrieves from the streets – but his studio space must be kept clean as a shrine
The Mexican artist offers a glimpse of his makeshift studio in a Venetian palazzo
The painter of fantastical jungle scenes can actually see the forest from her studio in the Dominican Republic – but she’s not afraid to use her imagination
