Apollo

During the pandemic the pioneering feminist painter has retreated to her studio in rural Pennsylvania, where she has truly embraced the quiet life

The unlikeliest objects in the London-based artist’s studio? Either the sex toys or the taxidermy collection, she says

The painter offers a glimpse of her canalside studio in London, where she works alone save for her portrait sitters – and a stuffed toy camel on wheels

When the weather permits, the artist builds her textile sculptures in the cobblestone courtyard of her studio in the heart of Paris

At Modern Art Oxford, the artist has set the stage for a ceremony initiating visitors into a utopian world of racial justice

The Welsh artist’s studio looks out on to the mountains of Snowdonia – idyllic were it not for the children screaming in the playground next door, he says

The one tool Julian Opie could least do without? His eyes, he says – although he’d be pretty lost without his computer too

The artist, poet and musician Heather Phillipson may live and work in London – but her main studio, she says, is in her head

The painter is currently commuting to a studio in his garden and has an encyclopaedia of palm trees close at hand

The Scottish painter Caroline Walker offers a glimpse inside her north London studio – where she’s kept company by slugs, spiders and cuddly toys

The artist recently moved into a new studio overlooking a cemetery in Hackney – the view’s great, but there is a minor mosquito problem