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Angela’s Interview with artist Honour Mack

Some paintings shout. Others whisper. One might dance, while another haunts. Honour Mack’s paintings float. They move slowly out of the corner of your eye. Layers deep within her paintings, find their way to the surface as light changes. There’s an ethereal quality to Honour’s paintings that I find mysteriously comforting. Unexpected color. We live []…

Interview with Lissa Hunter

Lissa Hunter is one of the wisest people I know. I’ve learned many things over the years, talking with Lissa while she coils baskets and shares some of her wisdom without knowing she’s doing so. She is a craftsperson, a sculptor, a writer, a painter, a drawer and a teacher among many other things. Her studio []…

Interview with Alice Spencer

Yardage #1, Alice Spencer , acrylic and gesso on sand on board , 29″ x 41″, 2011 One of the things that I find fascinating about an artist is learning what they are most passionate about. In those learnings lie the core of their inspirations and the roots of their work. Alice Spencer has a passion for textiles, []…

Interview with Glenn Bartley

Marvelous Spatuletail Glenn Bartley has designed a very inspiring life for himself. He is a world renowned nature photographer and travels the world photographing rare birds and other interesting creatures. Living in British Columbia provides him with endless birding opportunities and an understanding of Northern migrators and the coastal birds that inhabit the cold waters there. He []…

Angela’s Interview with Maine Artist Tom Hall

For the 18 years that we had our studios, shop and business on Congress Street in Portland, Maine we had the luxury of sharing that building with Tom Hall. Tom was a featured artist in our new Studio Showroom. His work transforms the spaces it inhabits and layers on a depth of soul that whispers []…

Interview with Marianne Lesko

When did you first get interested in designing spaces? I think my earliest pretend games were designing my bedroom at my childhood home. I was a fashion design major in college and loved it, but my friends would walk into my dorm room at the Fashion Institute of Technology in NYC and tell me that []…

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