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Studio Diaries

A sculptor seated at a desk before large loft windows, wire figures on the glass, dried flower mobiles overhead. A glass artist standing at her torch bench, the scene washed in amber tungsten light against white brick. A molten glass flower blazing orange inside the torch flame. The cyanotype artist in a cobalt linen top standing before circular prints stitched with copper thread. An empty woodshop: workbenches, a table saw, clamps and foam boards before a wall of black framed windows. The metal sculptor seated on a stool at her workshop bench, hair braided, turned toward the window light. Close portrait of the sculptor, a paintbrush held in his mouth, shelves of jars behind. Pressed metal ginkgo leaves hanging on fine wires against a gridded window. A shared ceramics studio, the potter steadying her wrapped vase on a banding wheel amid white shelving. The plaster sculptor seated smiling beside her white magnolia bas relief panels. A welded metal artwork on a white wall: an engraved figure plate in a steel frame beside two forged roses. The ceramicist bent close over a porcelain slab, incising with a needle tool. An artist bent over a bucket of poppies, arranging a paper wrapped bouquet in apricot and cream. The shadow of a vase of flowers cast through a sunlit linen curtain. The lampworker seated at her bench, a blue white torch jet cutting the frame, a rack of finished glass flowers behind. The potter looks down as she refines the flared rim of her coil built vase. Hands leafing through herbarium sheets of pressed white flowers at a window desk. The glass artist reflected in a paint spattered mirror as she works a glass rod in the torch flame. Tweezers steady a looping clear and black glass sculpture while a joint glows molten orange. A young sculptor on a stool in the woodshop, arm resting on a furry owl speaker, a cabinet of hand tools behind. The sculptor welding at her bench in a visor helmet, silhouetted against the workshop windows. A hanging mobile of dried allium heads and pale dried flowers on clear acrylic arches. The sculptor at a sawhorse worktable arranging pinned metal ginkgo leaf panels. A shelf of collected things: jars of shells and corks, a box marked shells, stacked books. A wall of cyanotypes, framed and pinned Prussian blue tree prints on paper and cloth. The ceramicist squeezing a yellow sponge over an engraved clay slab on its taped board. The sculptor crouches in a tan apron before the finished white floral relief, brush raised. A hand with a red needle tool embroidering olive stitches into a blue and white cyanotype fabric. A dark green yarn ball and scattered olive running stitches on white fabric. A ceramics studio wall with taped up figure drawings, glaze test tiles, and a cluttered bench of jars. The ceramicist laughs down at the slab as she carves, cut clay medallions laid out below. A gloved hand guides a paint loaded brush across the plaster magnolia relief. Hands smoothing a clay coil onto the neck of a raw grey vessel. A close up of clear pressed glass flowers dissolving into warm amber light. The young sculptor laughing at the workbench, hands clasped on the plywood top.

Studio Diaries is an ongoing series of personal and commissioned work in which I visit artists working across different mediums and document their creative process.

The project began at a time when I was struggling to find my own voice and place in a new city. Feeling isolated, I became curious about how other artists navigate similar challenges, if they experience them at all. I wanted to understand how they build their daily routines, organise their studios, and create space for their work.

Through this project, I also explore different artistic practices and invite the audience to look more closely at the details behind each work. I believe that when we understand how something was made and what led to its final form, we appreciate both art and everyday life more deeply. And the more often we experience that sense of appreciation, the happier and more connected we can feel.

Studio Diaries