What, where & how do you need to work?

If you are an artist, it is vital to your work that you be surrounded by the appropriate and needed materials and subjects, it could be argued however that an artist may thrive with limited materials, for example pencil and sketchbook as long as they are in environment that stimulates and inspires them, beyond any range of paint, pastels and canvas’s ever could.

The same could be said for a teacher, if she has no board to write on and no books to teach with, is it possible that with the correct amount of preparation of the information beforehand and a class of pupils willing to listen & learn, she is able to make more of a difference than a worn-out teacher in a well supplied school with pupils who care less about the lesson and more about what’s for lunch?

These examples however are extreme and in most cases, a balance is most effective. Also, it completely depends on the individual, especially for people in the creative profession as so many different things will inspire different artists and designers. As for teachers, a room full of pupils will always contain a mixture of those willing to learn, and those not.