The artist takes inspiration from Billie Holiday, El Greco and a pair of old Indian puppets when painting large-scale canvases in his East London studio
When he’s not using stadiums to realise his visions, the artist welcomes all manner of visitors, from school kids to tuk-tuk drivers, in his studio-cum-gallery in northern Ghana
The American artist and academic gets up at 5.30am and finds inspiration in moths, dinosaurs and Dante when working in her barn in Connecticut
The Ugandan-born artist treats her sculpture studio as a strict place of work – except for the occasional glass of Japanese whisky
The San Franciscan painter and ceramicist uses jazz, podcasts and Bay Area nature to help him create fantastical anthropomorphic works out of clay
The artist works from her home in the wilds of northern Finland, where she sews textile pieces beside a wood-burning stove to the sound of Sami radio
The Haitian-Canadian artist surrounds himself with unlikely objects to spark his imagination, books about drawing, and about 25 different types of tea
The South African photographer believes that an artist’s studio can be a hotel room, a playground, a kitchen, a toilet – or even a crime scene
The Polish artist who works with Elon Musk and takes her robot for walks believes in technology, but has other idols too
The multidisciplinary artist begins her work in bed each morning and spends her afternoons cycling to meetings, equipped with two large saddlebags
The Bahraini artist only spends about two hours a day in his airy studio – but that focused time is all he needs
The painter works on several pieces at a time with the occasional break to use her skipping rope
The Indian sculptor lives and works in a remote rural village where she has to contend with regular power cuts and monsoon downpours
The Czech ceramicist works in the heart of a wood in Sweden where animals and insects are her main visitors
The mythology-mad artist magics up textiles, paintings and sculptures while surrounded by Korean masks and other miscellany – including the ashes of her late dog, Chicho
The painter enjoys a bird’s-eye view from her high-rise studio, where she works among paint-encrusted books and a surprisingly large stack of bridal magazines
The Japanese ceramicist enjoys the tranquility of working in an old building surrounded by rice fields – despite the occasional unwanted visitor
The artist starts the day by watering the plants on his balcony from where he can watch people eating at a neighbouring restaurant
The Japanese painter works to the sounds of birds chirping and receives regular visits from figures from the past
The Brooklyn-based artist has found that becoming a mother has completely transformed the way she works
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
