studio space rentals

[H.D.Campbell]

anyone here have a studio space that they rent ? i have been thinking about doing this myself ..i am running out of space in my home and want to have a place to go to without the household distractions and also would be a insentive to create more to cover the overhead ..what are your thoughts? has anyone else ben thinking about this?
hugs

[Susan R. Sorrell]

I had been renting a space for a year until I got my own building. I like to go there and get away for the house hold stuff....but I miss not having my stuff at home to work on at night. My studio is 7 miles away and I don't just pop in...I have to schedule my days. I treat my art more like a job when I have a studio away from home and for some reason it make me more legitimate with other artists and non artists...which is stupid because I created more when I had my studio at home. :)

[Griselda Tello]

I love creating in a group...but most of those times I have been the one teaching. I used to travel all over giving demonstrations and workshops in oil painting (that is how I supported myself when I was a single mom)
Last year, they called me from a small town 45 minutes from mine because their demonstrator got sick...and I tell you...I had a blast! It was at the local library, a great room, and what made it more interesting, I had with me two baskets full of art dolls...you should have seen their reaction..."What are those" LMAO....are they...er...Bodoo dolls? and slowly as they started to touch them...they felt the soft energy creeping in...and people were saying ohh...yeah...I can see myself making one.
As for being "someone" I have been there and it also passes away...adoration if wonderful, but it has its demands, and you have to live up to what others think of art...since I started moving into mix-media and visionary work...I noticed how the galleries think of eclectic art as non professional, the gallery where I sell my "normal" paintings (mostly my redwoods) for the past 30 years...they DO NOT want to have anything with my "other stuff" I appreciate how they feel, but they have lost many sales too. My dolls sell well in another gallery where they don't take my paintings...go figure.

[Griselda Tello]

Hello Susan, I hear you...I can see how it is to have your own space where people are not asking if there is anything to eat or if you saw their shirt in the laundry...groans*

I used to have a small studio in town at the back of a boutique, the lady who used to do the mending passed away and I asked the owner to let me rent it for 100.00 a month, which was huge for me in those days and even now when I think about it, because it was just a place to scape from my own studio. I found myself dragging things from one place to the other because I was working in the two...not easy, yet, town's people got to see my paintings in the wall behind me while I painted, that gave me an "aura" of professionalism which they don't see when they only get to see 3 paintings in my Real Estate office now, they never ask if they are mine. I also used to have a studio gallery with my mom in Laguna Beach Ca. that was so distracting...people would come in and out and I could never finish anything because of that.

Right now, I have the whole front room...what others use for a formal living room...and I am in heaven there. There are times, when the family is watching a program on TV, I take the dolls to the kitchen counter and that becomes my worktable...I would rather work from my home studio anytime