{"id":235,"date":"2026-03-24T16:23:32","date_gmt":"2026-03-24T16:23:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/joemallia.co.uk\/?p=235"},"modified":"2026-03-24T16:23:33","modified_gmt":"2026-03-24T16:23:33","slug":"the-new-studio-a-work-in-progress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/joemallia.co.uk\/index.php\/2026\/03\/24\/the-new-studio-a-work-in-progress\/","title":{"rendered":"The New Studio - a Work in Progress"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>After a long period working only sporadically I'm finally getting back to a point where I can focus properly on my painting. We've been renovating a house and converting a garage to a studio. That conversion will mean I can open the studio for visitors during <a href=\"https:\/\/openupsheffield.co.uk\/\">Open Up Sheffield<\/a> when artists across the city welcome visitors to their studios. It feels a bit touch and go, but I'm trusting that the new studio will be finished enough to show my work!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"485\" src=\"https:\/\/joemallia.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/20260324_160237-1024x485.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-231\" srcset=\"https:\/\/joemallia.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/20260324_160237-1024x485.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/joemallia.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/20260324_160237-300x142.jpg 300w, https:\/\/joemallia.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/20260324_160237-768x364.jpg 768w, https:\/\/joemallia.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/20260324_160237-1536x728.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/joemallia.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/20260324_160237-2048x971.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>It's been a long time coming but I think I can see light at the end of the tunnel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"485\" src=\"https:\/\/joemallia.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/20260324_160328-1024x485.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-232\" srcset=\"https:\/\/joemallia.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/20260324_160328-1024x485.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/joemallia.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/20260324_160328-300x142.jpg 300w, https:\/\/joemallia.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/20260324_160328-768x364.jpg 768w, https:\/\/joemallia.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/20260324_160328-1536x728.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/joemallia.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/20260324_160328-2048x971.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After a long period working only sporadically I'm finally getting back to a point where I can focus properly on my painting. We've been renovating a house and converting a garage to a studio. That conversion will mean I can open the studio for visitors during Open Up Sheffield when artists across the city welcome [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"common","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-workinprogress"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/joemallia.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/joemallia.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/joemallia.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joemallia.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joemallia.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=235"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/joemallia.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":236,"href":"https:\/\/joemallia.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235\/revisions\/236"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/joemallia.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joemallia.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joemallia.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}