Emily Hare

Shared space This fantasy illustrator shows us around her un-staged studio and gives us some tips on how to avoid drinking paint water…

I work from home in a small attic room in the city of Nottingham, England, which I share with my partner, Matt Dixon who’s also an artist. It’s small, but it works!

I have a digital and traditional setup for my painting process. I worked for many years digitally (although I started originally in traditional media and have returned now to watercolour), and so I use my ipad now to sketch up ideas, experiment with colour comps and work out tricky compositions before transferring over to watercolour. Previously, I used a Wacom, but I just don’t need it any more and the ipad works great.

I try to be as structured as possible in my working day because I’m not naturally structured in the way that I work (good influence from the other half!). I start work at nine, stop for lunch at 12, then work again from around one to six in the evening.