The Garage Studio
&
Retro Bedroom

 

 

This combination of rooms is ideal for all Visual Artists & Designer/Makers, providing a studio space with a North facing window, blank wall and sink, and a separate bedroom.

The Garage Studio

The Garage studio is perfect for creating *all types of works of art. It has a large North facing double door so good natural light during the day and no direct sunshine, so not dazzling or too hot mid summer. This door faces the road, so there is a little noise as cars go past, but it’s not a fast road and there’s barely any foot traffic.

Trestle tables, easels and a table top easel are provided and there is sink for cleaning out brushes and so forth. There is a blank white wall (240cm wide), suitable for taping up works on paper and the centre of the room has a concrete floor, suitable for laying out larger works. It’s about 3m wide and nearly 8m long.

Though this space is offered to you for your sole use as a studio, residents will pass through it from time-to-time to access other rooms in the property or to use the fridge and washing machine, also situated within the space. Laundry will be done at a time that suits you, to ensure you are not disturbed by it’s sound.

Patrick Schmidt, Studio Faire 2023, Photo Colin Usher
*Materials or processes which may cause physical illness or initiate fires are not permitted for use at Studio Faire, this includes toxic pigments, paint thinners, spray paints and flammable or combustible products. Such chemicals as these are also extremely hard to dispose of safely, in accordance with French law, and therefore could cause environmental danger if disposed of incorrectly. Our aims are to safeguard the property, our resident’s health and the planet as best we can, rather than to stifle creativity!
Studio Faire, Garage Studio (Feat Brittany Loar)
Studio Faire, Garage Studio (Feat Rachael Van Dyke)

The Retro Bedroom

This bedroom is cosy yet spacious (450 x 270cm), with a comfy double sleigh bed, a period wardrobe, desk and chairs, and an ornamental antique stove in the corner. It is situated on the first floor at the front of the house (road side, so you can hear the purr of cars passing).

As the room was last decorated in the mid 1960s, the decor is vintage!

Images from top:
AIRs Wendy Rolt, Patrick Schmidt, Brittany Loar and Rachael Van Dyke,
all in the Garage Studio.
The Retro Bedroom.
Photos by Colin Usher.