5 stars This is an odd one Black and white straight faced portraits of the artists charming each then followed by color photographs of their houses and gardens Or at least parts of their houses a few eclectic pictures on a wall a pet on a couch the base of a stair The items chosen by the photographer were too random for my full enjoyment as seemed the descriptions which accompanied For example a closeup of a ratty couch covered by an ugly coverlet is highlighted in not just one but two of the homes and there s a picture of a stairway covered barely by a worn runner and decked by piles of old magazines Why choose these particular views Is it to show that artists are just like us Or perhaps depending on the reader dirtier than us I don t regret reading through it but I didn t really get it 9780500021323 This is like a British version of The Selby is in Your Place There are brief bios of the artists then you see their homes They all kind of seem like hoarders and on each page I kept thinking of all the dirt and dust that must be accumulating on their collections but better to see in a book than in person 9780500021323 charming my favorite artist listed was daniel who lived in a basic treehouse next to a vodka millionaire s mansion on a 200 acre organic farm wonderful photos eclectic snippets of lives vignettes of homes and the personalities nestled therein my kind of thing in a nutshell loved it 9780500021323 Between a 3 and 4 I love getting peeks into working artists homes and studios and the photos are of the everyday creative corners in homes a beautiful doorway a hallway filled to the gills with stuff All are artists who reside in England 9780500021323 There was some nice eye candy here but there was too much writing and it wasn t great 9780500021323 This lavishly illustrated book is an intimate look at the interiors lifestyles and houses belonging to a wide range of artists and creatives In this beautifully illustrated book writer and photographer Tom Harford Thompson presents individual eccentric homes and workspaces from a music producer s studio to an ecowarrior s treehouse His evocative photographs show how our life work spaces whether a tumbledown cottage a country farmhouse or a reclaimed factory are beautiful because of the lives we live in them With work no longer separate from home life we see how these artists function the spaces that inspire them pursuing the life creative Among the artists and craftspeople featured are internationally recognized names like Billy Childish cofounder of the Stuckist art movement Penny Rimbaud and Gee Vaucher creative partners who set up their home and studio as an anarchist pacifist open house and music producer Liam Watson of the famed London studio Toe Rag Harford Thompson whose work has been featured in the Guardian and Art Review showcasing craft and design with a homespun edge For people who want to move beyond glossy styled homes and wish to revamp their personal spaces to make them truly individual Artists Homes is an essential resource c. Artists' homesong 350 illustrations 300 in color Artists HomesIt had great pictures and stories and I didn t relate to them as well as I might to artist living and working in small spaces in America 9780500021323 
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