As someone who has a love/hate relationship with my messy workspace, I get a real thrill when I get to peek inside the studios of fellow creatives. I rarely care about the furniture, or the books and tchotchkes—although those do say a lot about a person and are fun to snoop around. In truth, it’s the mess I love: the paint spills, the stray marks, the piles spilling over tables … that’s the good stuff.
Before I saw the paintings of Guy Yanai, a young artist currently living and working in Tel Aviv, Israel, I saw this image of his studio. I was instantly drawn to the space, and the millions of colored smears on the walls and floors. Their expressiveness provides such a stark contrast to the tidy, linear brushstrokes in his paintings. It’s always a treat to sneak a glimpse of how a work of art is made, and the space an artist inhabits. I hope you enjoy this look into his studio as much as I do, and I highly recommend taking the time to check out more of Yanai’s alluring, candy-colored paintings on his website.
