The Lisbon-based artist once invited the fashion designer John Galliano to join the studio's Bollywood dance rehearsal
The Mexican artist's studio is filled with books and tiny pieces of detritus that have fallen off her artworks or that she finds on her travels
Downtime is important for the artist in downtown Los Angeles, who has a figurine from a children’s television show keep watch over their studio
The New York-based artist listens to experimental jazz and audiobooks about physics, and likes to keep her studio floor clean enough for bare feet
The painter begins his day by sneaking up on his paintings in an attempt to see them afresh and completes them at night when they’re looking their worst
The British sculptor keeps haunting relics of the colonial era in his London studio – and soothes himself with audiobooks while he works
The British artist keeps long hours and prefers to work alone, listening to the music of Alice Coltrane and Stevie Wonder or lately, the Italian radio
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 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
