There is something iconic and inspiring about Maria’s Schoolhouse Studio. As best we can tell, the studio was  built as a one-room school house around 1800. Sometime after World War II, it was moved from nearby Shushan, N.Y. and used as a workshop and storage shed.

When we bought this farm, the first thing we did was fix the old schoolhouse up, putting in new electricity and baseboard heating and lighting. Maria has put together an amazing amount of work in the studio, she loves it and has made it her own.

In a storm, it has a special meaning, I love to look over at it and think that something magical will come out of there today. It warms me up and sheds light. Fate is in there too, the pair of them conspiring to create, even in a storm, especially in a storm.

Maria and I began our relationship when I offered her the use of a barn in the old Bedlam Farm. It was the beginning of my resurrection.