Artists at home

When the house Phoebe Dickinson fell in love with as a child came onto the market, the artist and her husband, the filmmaker and art dealer Luke Rodgers, knew it was kismet. Now fully ensconced and looking forward to a family Christmas, they have found the move to be life changing

During lockdown Monica Grose Hodge's tranquil flat in an 1830s house in Hackney, rapidly became a workshop for her Rag pictures, using a 19th century technique to make patterns based on 16^th century Crewel Work.

On the 21st floor of a Barbican tower block, the flat of Royal Academician Michael Craig-Martin mirrors his artistic aesthetic, with clean lines, blocks of colour and careful placement of artworks and the design classics that feature in his work

As an artist, colours come instinctively to Catherine Cazalet, who has painted her Cotswold house in a riot of bold, beautiful shades

The farmhouse Caitriona Platts-Manoury shares with her husband Christian, a gallerist and artist, is a place of pared-back beauty

The Kent home of artist Robert Montgomery and poet and actress Greta Bellamacina is a jewel box of candy colours, distinctive antiques and original artworks. The effect is irreverent and original, and provides the perfect setting for their family life and work

Aiming for something ‘romantic and camp, without going too Liberace’ the artist Christabel MacGreevy has conjured up an old fashioned English scheme with contemporary bite for her friend the photographer Harry Carr

Behind the door of an unassuming Edwardian house in London, the artist Natasha Mann has created a richly patterned world of her own design

Textile artist Pauline Caulfield's home and studio, decorated in the 1980s with her former husband – artist and printmaker Patrick Caulfield – is a layered, timeless interior that bears testament to a creative life well lived.

Tasked with bringing colour and harmony to the ‘greige’ interiors of this Victorian house, interior designer Tamsin Saunders has created spaces to inspire the artist who lives there

Not even a resident ghost could dissuade artist Sergio Roger and his partner Fernando Ansorena from creating a heavenly home in this hilltop apartment overlooking Barcelona

Deep inside a protected nature reserve on Mallorca’s northern coastline, the American sculptor Micheal Prentice has spent decades building an enchanting retreat.

This light-filled house in Bruges is a rare example of 1930s Dutch architecture and its artist owners have made it the perfect canvas for their creative pursuits

In a former monastery on a hilltop in southern Tuscany, the residence and studio of British sculptor Emily Young is the ideal setting for her stone carved heads and figures, each telling a story of their own.

The painter Haidee Becker has created a serene, comfortable live-work space in her north London house, including a magical, light-filled studio where she paints her contemplative still lifes and portraits

No ordinary restoration project, this previously neglected 18th-century cottage in the Yorkshire Dales has been turned into a living canvas and rural retreat by its artist owner Kitty North and her friend Robin Lucas

The cottage has been gradually reconfigured over the past 30 years by a creative couple to provide a versatile home, cleverly adapted to accommodate their evolving work and family requirements

Clever design and an excellent eye for colour have made Daisy Sims-Hilditch's apartment a stylish place to find calm amidst the bustle of west London

An artist and illustrator by trade, Alice Peto has created her very own wonderland in a west London townhouse

It is fitting that Bernar Venet's home-cum-gallery in Provence is accommodated in a former mill and factory, with their industrial past forming a direct link with his monumental steel sculptures