Artists in their studios

With the sad news of Martin Parr’s death, we revisit a story from the House & Garden archive that takes a behind-the-scenes look at his foundation in Bristol

Welcome to the cheeky, satirical world of David Shrigley and the former office building where he teases his work to life

While some artists thrive on solitude, others have discovered that working in the company of another creative can not only be invigorating but also have unanticipated advantages

At her Hastings workspace, Fiona McKenzie Johnston and photographer Joshua Monaghan find the painter taking everything in her shoe-covered stride, as she turns apparent failures into new work

The sculptor’s works are rooted, sometimes literally, in the Suffolk landscape, where he has two studios. Fiona McKenzie Johnston and photographer Joshua Monaghan visit him at work

Since taking up residence in Hampstead in 2023, the peripatetic Royal Academician has established a workspace nearby, which is one of several he has around the world. Fiona McKenzie Johnston and photographer Joshua Monaghan visit him at his four-storey warehouse in Kentish Town

Fiona McKenzie Johnstone and photographer Joshua Monaghan visit the Hackney workshop where the stained-glass designer and his team produce pieces that are both traditional and modern in style

Fiona McKenzie Johnston and photographer Joshua Monaghan visit the Royal Academician known by this pseudonym

Mary Norden's creative journey has taken her from being a successful textile designer and stylist to making evocative landscape and still-life fabric collages in a tiny east London studio next door to her artist husband.

Fiona McKenzie Johnston and photographer Joshua Monaghan visit the British-Tanzanian polymath in the converted Edinburgh factory where she creates her large oil paintings and collaged works

Fiona McKenzie Johnston and photographer Joshua Monaghan visit the Royal Academician whose idiosyncratic space reflects the freedom of her process

Visiting the painter in his two London work spaces, Fiona McKenzie Johnston and photographer Joshua Monaghan discover how he creates his distinctive landscapes and evocative interior portraits