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Paul (Dixie) Dean

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I’m sure you will find a space for one Fiona. I can see it in the future , advertised as holiday breaks , art and crafts at at Clan Fiona’s. 

Brian J Mackay

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I need my messiness. If things are too tidy I always struggle to find things, so perhaps ordered chaos has its advantages. My wife tidied my corner up a bit, putting all my paints in a large box. Couldn't find a thing but had the good sense to stay quiet about it all. The scattiness of my artistic endeavours is an essential part of the creative process. *smile* Adios Bri

Carrie Flinte

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I am almost OCD in my organisation, I feel like I cant think straight if there is any mess.  I like to find nice ways of storing my stuff that I can put my own stamp on.  I have my little notebooks and oil paintbrushes in a spice rack that I picked up from Sainsburys and covered in stickers.  Then I have two cheap drawer sets from Ikea, which I painted, and stores a never ending amount of stuff (actually all of my storage and tubs are from Ikea come to think of it).
With Sarah, Phil, Ellen, Rose the dentist, and the granddaughter whose name I forget.

Robert Jones, NAPA

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Carrie is like my landlord - he loves order, he has those plastic boxes in which everything is filed, he even has his vinyl collection catalogued online, so can tell you exactly how much an old album is currently fetching on the market: not that he'll ever sell.   He looks into my flat now and then, and winces in pain - remarks like "you'll never live long enough to read all those books" are commonplace; picking up from my late mother, who said "I pity whoever has to clean this place out when you die"; but - I don't say I like it like this; provided I could go away and live in luxury for a couple of months, while cleaners and decorators (and the occasional builder) put things to rights, I should be quite happy for them to try it.  But I'm never going to do it myself: and yet I still know where everything is - oil paint in an ancient box that once held a flat-bed ink duplicator; acrylics in a wooden box which held a shipment of wine; brushes in a number of tubes which held whiskey bottles, plus the odd jam-jar; watercolours - well, all over the place just at the moment; gouache in the filing cabinet (surely EVERYONE has a filing cabinet?); paper in the sideboard's knife drawer; canvases and boards stacked by the bed; pencils and pens in cigar boxes; chalks and pastels in some rather peculiar places, where I stumble on them now and then and have a play with them.   I also pretend that if I had a big studio, I'd keep it tidy: but I know I wouldn't (think of Francis Bacon's - mine would be very similar, though perhaps marginally less squalid).  
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Paul (Dixie) Dean

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I don’t think in OCD about having thing need and tidy and to be honest it only since I have had a change around thst I have keep thing tidy . Like Robert I use boxes and tube and of course the odd bought storage , I have several large plastic boxes for my paintings stored in my shad. My reads use stuff is under my bed in boxes etc , including one for paper.  Under beds are so useful for storage as long as you remember what’s there. 
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Helen Martell

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You lot are far too organised! 😂 I can't work in anything but chaos! I tidy up about twice a year (because it's a mammoth job - usually involves totally re-arranging the entire spare room 'for a change'). I have to share the room with overflow wardrobe and cupboards, so the chaos isn't entirely my own doing. 
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