Opening on July 17 and running through August 16 at the Copley Society of Art on Boston’s Newbury Street, “A Shared Space: One Studio, Two Views” features the varied paintings of Margaret Sheldon and Meghan Weeks.

Sheldon and Weeks are studio mates — Sheldon spending lots of time painting “furiously” with her coffee, hot in the colder months and iced when it’s cold — a classic New England experience, and Weeks, a plein air painter, balancing her studio time with her time outdoors.

The space is small in square-footage, cozy and graciously lit. Their studio is one of the many located at 450 Harrison Ave., home of Boston’s SoWa Artist Guild; they flutter together in between many of the South End’s contemporary artists. And sometimes, they are joined by Weeks’ friend’s dog Pep, who also has a welcomed space in the studio. He has a bed, and toys! Although, he usually just naps.

Despite their differences in painting styles — they work together throughout the space and don’t break the room into two. The space allows their work to be perfectly complementary. “When visitors come into our studio, they are often surprised to learn that there are two artists working here,” Sheldon said. “It’s not uncommon for them to ask if we each have one wall on which to hang our work. It’s a simple answer, ‘nope.’ Our wall space is limited, and we happily hang a new piece wherever we can. It’s not something we worry about.”