{"id":1209,"date":"2024-11-19T07:51:33","date_gmt":"2024-11-19T07:51:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/savingstudio.com\/?p=1209"},"modified":"2024-11-19T07:51:33","modified_gmt":"2024-11-19T07:51:33","slug":"a-day-in-the-life-of-an-artist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/savingstudio.com\/index.php\/2024\/11\/19\/a-day-in-the-life-of-an-artist\/","title":{"rendered":"A Day In The Life Of An Artist"},"content":{"rendered":"

A Day In The Life Of An Artist
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Karimah Hassan is a London-based artist who has just held her largest solo exhibition to date at Holborn’s Rosewood in partnership with Frieze London. She\u2019s also worked with institutions like the Barbican and fashion brands like Burberry and here, we asked her to talk us through a typical day\u2026<\/p>\n

6am<\/em><\/h4>\n

I wake up naturally with the sun, so in the winter this usually<\/strong>\u00a0shifts to 7am.<\/strong>\u00a0The first thing I do is say a prayer. I then do 20-30 minutes of meditation and breathwork using the\u00a0Insight app. I then go for a five-minute walk just to get some fresh air and sunlight.<\/p>\n

7.15am<\/em><\/h4>\n

Once I\u2019m back from my walk, I do my morning pages.<\/strong>\u00a0Each month I get a new journal. I keep them all in an orange trunk and I’ve been doing that since 2018, so I have a lot. I’ll also have my first coffee of the day from\u00a0Monmouth. I’m really not a breakfast person, so I\u2019ll just have my coffee with fruit and nuts. While I\u2019m in the shower, I will have a podcast by Elizabeth Gilbert, Malcolm Gladwell or Shara Rose on in the background because I love a bit of self-development. After my shower I dry brush with almond oil. I\u2019m trying out\u00a0Rhode\u00a0skincare at the moment, which I love. Other products I swear by include\u00a0La Roche Posay\u00a0Vitamin C12 Serum\u00a0and\u00a0Omorovicza\u2019s\u00a0Queen of Hungary face mist. I tend not to wear make-up during the day \u2013 just a bit of lipstick and a good fragrance sets me up. My daytime signature scent is\u00a0e11even\u00a0\u2013 I designed the artwork for the bottle.<\/p>\n

8am\u00a0<\/em><\/h4>\n

I get dressed twice a day.\u00a0<\/strong>First it\u2019s into some athleisurewear as I\u2019ll be heading to the gym or for a run later in the day. My workout gear comes either from\u00a0Nike,\u00a0Sweaty Betty\u00a0or\u00a0lululemon. Once I\u2019m dressed, I make the 20-minute walk to my studio in east London and get into my painting flow work. I can\u2019t leave the house without lipstick and\u00a0Elizabeth Arden\u2019s\u00a0Eight Hour Cream. My studio is in a warehouse space with lots of light, big paintings everywhere, plants, lots of books, postcards and letters. It’s my oasis, my safe space. When I’m painting, I love to listen to playlists featuring Gilles Peterson or Haseeb Iqbal. I love jazz, Philly and neo soul \u2013 Common and Jill Scott are on rotation right now. Music is so important to me, and I never thought that it would become my biggest inspiration, but it really has. I’ve also been listening to hours of interviews and speeches on YouTube, everyone from Jim Carrey to Anna Wintour. One of my favourites is by Denzel Washington called\u00a0Fall Forward.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A Day In The Life Of An Artist Karimah Hassan is a London-based artist who has just held her largest solo exhibition to date at Holborn’s Rosewood in partnership with Frieze London. She\u2019s also worked with institutions like the Barbican and fashion brands like Burberry and here, we asked her to talk us through a<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1210,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/savingstudio.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1209","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/savingstudio.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/savingstudio.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/savingstudio.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/savingstudio.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1209"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/savingstudio.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1209\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1211,"href":"https:\/\/savingstudio.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1209\/revisions\/1211"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/savingstudio.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1210"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/savingstudio.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/savingstudio.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/savingstudio.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}