A studio full of artists and a model can sometimes be like a crowded bus. Once the life or portrait session is finished and the artists leave the studio, a completely different silence is created in that space.

The absence of the human presence allows the equipment and the past activity to express itself anew; the studio takes on a different atmosphere; that of the weathered and paint spattered easels, charcoal dust and other materials used in a studio space. The empty room takes on a life of light and form that is open to a different interpretation of studio life.

For Josephs’ exhibition he has used a limited palette to illustrate a space that can be full of activity, but when the door to the studio closes at the end of the day it becomes a place of solitude.