My dream studio will be in my art truck. I plan to downsize and strip everything from my life and my responsibilities that I possibly can so I can be more focused on making art.

Currently I live in a small house with an acre of land. I love my little house and my property but it takes so much work and so much of my time. I have little interest in using the kitchen to prepare meals, using the dining room to eat in, or mowing a lawn. I don’t need much of a kitchen beyond a hot plate or microwave. My dining room table is a place for paintings and prints to dry. My living room is the place I prop up the paintings I am currently working on or planning to take to a show. I eat on my couch. Often I sleep on the couch. So already I know I can do with little. I plan to get rid of extraneous stuff and move into a Minnie Winnebago. I know this will be a big change, and I can’t quite figure out where all my art supplies will go. But I know this is what I was meant to do.

I imagine living in the same space where I work and produce my art and jewelry. I will have a work space for painting, one for rubbing my prints, and one for soldering/hammering my metal jewelry. There will be a shelf for books and cabinets for art supplies.

 

I picture having the freedom to drive to my daughter’s house and hang out for a day or so. Then on to my son’s house to visit him and his kids for a while. I will have a piece of property somewhere so that I can focus on making art in between these trips.

Then I will have the freedom to drive somewhere – just as the food trucks do – open up the truck and sell my art. If people are interested to see how I have set up my workshop, they are free to check it out.

 

I will have small workshops and classes in my art truck. It will be tight. But when the weather is nice and it spills out into the nearby property, that will work out fine.

 

I will pull up in front of shops on main streets whereby we both hope to increase one another’s business. I will take part in pop-up art shows and jewelry festivals.

 

For now I am reading whatever I can find about artists who live in their camper or tiny house on wheels or gypsy vardo and how they manage it.