Artists at home

Taking Rothko's art as her inspiration, artist Sussy Cazalet has turned her coastal house into a colourful delight of reds and pinks

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

Artist Phoebe Dickinson’s former south London home is a testament to what drives and inspires her, from the portraiture on the walls to the cherished fabrics and pieces of furniture amassed over time

Even for House & Garden’s former decoration editor Wendy Harrop, extending and reviving a neglected, dark and pebble-dashed brookside house in south west London proved to be a challenge – but her efforts have been amply rewarded

In an extract from ‘The Life Eclectic’, we take a tour of plaster artist and creative Viola Lanari's house, brimming with brilliant ideas

Photographer Joanna Vestey and her family's farm in Oxfordshire now reflects their passions for environmental issues, entertaining and travel.

A move to a new studio brought glass artist Emma Peascod  and her sculptor husband Tobias Martin to Gloucestershire, and this workspace and their cottage in Stratford-upon- Avon reflect the breadth of their creative skills

At her house in Connecticut, Frances Palmer has found harmony in the pursuit of her many passions – from creating beautiful vases and tableware in her studio to gardening and beekeeping

In studios in London and Kent, Kate Malone crafts distinctive ceramics that sell worldwide. While she and her husband Graham now have a house in Kent, they are still actively involved in creative communities in the capital and beyond