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The Love of His Life: Malcolm Wright

Artist Malcolm Wright At the end of a meandering dirt road in the backwoods of southern Vermont, in a white-walled,…

Art for Architecture: Kent Bloomer

Tucked inside a brick factory complex in New Haven, Kent Bloomer’s studio exhibits the mix of casual disarray and studious…

Personal Attention: Artist Ann Mallory

Ann Mallory can’t imagine a life without clay. There’s a photo of her, age eight, sitting under her family’s lemon tree making adobe-mud

A Higher Calling: Artist Alex MacLean

Stunning. Breathtaking. Mesmerizing. These are just a few of the words that have been used by art critics and…

Repeat Performance: Textile Designer Ellisha Alexina

The eye moves up the curtain in search of where its pattern repeats. Finding repeats becomes a kind of game. Where to find the next line of flowers, leaves, or inky down-strokes? It becomes a visual game that

Paul Kelly: The Sky’s the Limit

When Paul Kelly travels abroad, he takes a sketchbook instead of a camera. Flip through the pad and you’ll find…

Elizabeth Gourlay: Transcendent Moments

Elizabeth Gourlay explores the dynamic interplay between color and form in abstract paintings that have extraordinary power. The bold geometry, such as the

Dunes and Duchess: Turn , Turn, Turn

If ever a couple seemed wired to run a business together, it’s this one. Entrepreneurs to the core, Michael Partenio…

No Boundaries

As Sarah Amos shows off some of the finished and in-progress colorful abstract prints that fill her barn-like northern Vermont studio, she reflects on how to describe what she does.

The Finer Things

A luxury linens company in Massachusetts takes its family heritage into the twenty-first century with a sleek facility overhaul and a consumer-focused vision.

When Worlds Collide

When Brian Reid was in his early thirties, he called in sick to work a lot. “At first it’d be occasionally,” he says. “But after a while, sometimes I’d call in sick on Wednesday

The Storyteller

Westport photographer Sandi Haber Fifield’s compelling, dreamlike images capture singular and multiple points in time

Forging a Link to the Past

Keeping the craft of blacksmithing alive is a passion for the husband-and-wife team who own Hammersmith Studios. On an autumn…

The Insider

Joyce Tenneson’s photographs, whether of people or the natural world, are an intimate, searing, inward-looking search for meaning. The young woman leans…