The Studio in the Margins

About the Substack

A quiet creative community for people making art and writing alongside ordinary life — through shared studio hours, drawing practice, and seasonal reading.

Free Subscription Benefits

  • Reflections from my creative life: writing, drawing, working in the margins of everyday life

Paid Subcription Benefits

  • Draw Along Hour
  • Studio Hour (co-working)
  • Seasonal Book Club

Paid Subscription Plans

  • £38 a year
  • £4 a month

About Océane Meftah

I’m a writer and artist exploring what grows when we stop chasing growth and start tending to our creativity instead.

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