Artists and Makers

Thinking Inside the Box: The Art of Jay Rogers

Jay Rogers’s sculptural wooden containers are metaphors for the psyche, hinting at the parts of us that reveal themselves only…

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Wonders in Wood

Get Back Inc. owner Tim Byrne has a fitting nickname: “The Eye,” a moniker he earned for his ability to…

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Artistry: Sculptor Timothy Horn

There’s a good reason that many people have described Timothy Horn’s sculptural work as “jewel-like.” As the much-traveled, Australian-born artist…

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Artist Katherine Houston: Beguiling Botanicals

Katherine Houston pulls a small knot of damp clay from a large wad and kneads it in her hands as…

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Artistry: Lauren Kaplan

You can take Lauren Kaplan out of Africa, but you definitely can’t take Africa out of Lauren Kaplan. Drawing from her colorful upbringing in Johannesburg, South Africa, Kaplan, who now lives in Westport, hand-molds large- and

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The evocative Moon light

Double Vision: Ben and Aja Blanc

If you live and work together in a creative industry, inspiration can come when you least expect it. Maybe you’re on the back deck coloring with your two daughters when you realize you’ve just sketched an

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Artistry: Plein-Air Artist Nancy Friese

Nancy Friese’s landscapes are more than snapshots of inspiring locations. She uses the term “composite” to describe her technique: a blending of her feelings, interpretations, and memories of a place. A self-described

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True Originals: Connecticut Furniture Makers

A tree that falls in the forest may not make a sound—but let that same tree fall on a city street, and it’s likely to make a major statement. Particularly if it falls into the hands of Ted and Zeb

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Tyler & Sash Offers Custom Window Treatments with a Designer Twist

Shaun Tyler Burgess isn’t necessarily what you’d expect from the owner of a custom window treatment shop, especially in a small suburban Boston

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Vermont Textile Artist Karen Henderson

Karen Henderson’s artwork isn’t what it seems at first glance. From a distance, the canvases look as if they were layered with brushstrokes in muted, natural shades to create delicate landscapes: a fog-shrouded field or a forested

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Screen Stars: Tillett Textiles

In Sheffield, Massachusetts, a small town in the Berkshires, Tillett Textiles maintains a screen library. Part of a rambling manufacturing building, the space measures some 8,000 square feet and holds innumerable screens.

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Ceramicist Paula Shalan

When Paula Shalan was working on her master’s degree at the Art Institute of Chicago, she found herself preferring to spend time not in the museum of art, but in the museum of natural history. She filled her notebooks with sketches of

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Rosemary Hallgarten

Textile Artist Rosemary Hallgarten

Rosemary Hallgarten always wanted to earn her living making beautiful things. “I knew that as long as I could keep…

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Artist Rick Shaefer

Bent over a waist-high, eight-foot-square table in his airy, light-filled studio, Fairfield-based artist Rick Shaefer seems lost in thought as…

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Wayne Towle: The Wizard of Woodwork Refinishing and Restoration

Wayne Towle isn’t what you’d call a jack-of-all-trades, but within the niche where he’s carved out a thirty-year career, the

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