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# A View From the Easel
- URL: https://hyperallergic.com/a-view-from-the-easel-132/
- Published: 2019-09-13T15:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2025-11-24T16:08:01.000Z
- Description: This week, artist studios in Arizona, British Columbia, Indiana, and Maine.
- Author: Eric Vilas-Boas
- Tags: Community, A View From the Easel, Arizona, Southwest, #wp, #wp-post, #image-position-hidden, #Import 2025-11-24 07:34 (2019, 2020, part 1)

The 147th installment of [a series](https://hyperallergic.com/tag/a-view-from-the-easel/) in which artists send in a photo and a description of their workspace. Want to take part? Submit your studio — just [check out the submission guidelines](https://hyperallergic.com/47316/submit-your-workspace-to-a-view-from-the-easel/).

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/hyperallergic-newspack-s3-amazonaws-com/uploads/2019/08/nics-studio_1460-1.jpg)

## [Nicolette Maguire Bonnstetter](https://nicsart.com/?ref=hyperallergic.com), Scottsdale, Arizona

After a move to the southwest my studio is the smallest I’ve ever had. I’ve needed to figure storage as a priority! My work is detail oriented so, the studio has to be detail oriented for me to store and work, although it doesn’t look like it in this picture! While I work I have a book on tape going in the background, I miss most of the content, but it’s drone is a good sound blocker.

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/hyperallergic-newspack-s3-amazonaws-com/uploads/2019/08/img_6910.jpg)

## [Jane Everett](http://www.janeeverett.ca/?ref=hyperallergic.com), Kelowna, British Columbia

My studio has been the room over the garage. I have worked there for 25 years with my paints spilling over a table tucked under the knee walls. When I work on large scale drawings, anything larger than my 48″ x 72” drawing board, I have to roll part of it up or work on the floor. To get a proper look at the whole piece I roll it out on my driveway and then take the stairs two at a time to look out the studio window before it rains, or the neighbor’s dogs gallop up the driveway to say hello. I have loved and hated the chaos and the clutter of that space. But now I am getting a new space: a purpose-built studio with north facing skylights, a fourteen-foot ceiling and a big beautiful flat wall where I can draw or paint at any scale! It is as thrilling to me as a brand new untouched canvas; light, air, space, and all unsullied possibility.

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/hyperallergic-newspack-s3-amazonaws-com/uploads/2019/08/jennacitrus.jpg)

## [Jenna Citrus](http://jennacitrus.com/index.html?ref=hyperallergic.com), Evansville, Indiana

I’m creating in my studio, The Colorful Critter, with my friend. We wear white clothing so we can paint ourselves into our work. I frequently use this space as a performance zone and record the results of my dancing artistic expression. I checked my crocs at the door and delved into my free to splatter paint creative space. The outside of this building is white, well it was, every time I paint I leave an impression of what was on my hands and body.

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/hyperallergic-newspack-s3-amazonaws-com/uploads/2019/09/elizabeth-awalt-swans-island-maine-studio.jpg)

## [Elizabeth Awalt](http://www.elizabethawalt.com/?ref=hyperallergic.com), Swan’s Island, Maine

In my studio on Swans Island, Maine, I make paintings and constructions that refer to the sea outside my door. I collect seaweeds and print and use them as a template to paint with starting on the floor and then develop them further on the wall. I collect lobster trap detritus, seal bones, fishing rope and other objects that wash up on the shore and construct objects with them. The island is a rich resource for my work and a place where I feel free to play and experiment. It’s been my muse for over 30 years.