Studio 225

My husband and I live in a small college community in a wonderful old cottage style house. Our house number is 225. The main floor has high ceilings and generous sized rooms. The most difficult part of the style is that there are very few walls without large windows, doors or fireplaces. We both make art and even though we each have studio space in this house we needed a different type of space for certain processes. Tom, my husband, found wonderful plans for a garage which just fit into the space behind our house and the service street which runs behind us. Because it is a garage, the types of oversight that was required was less strict and it has a wonderful garage door for moving large objects in and out. Tom , with very little help, built the structure over about 10 months and it is wonderful. No more pots of dye everywhere in the kitchen or the splatters and stains that go with that. I have a place to do all sorts of wet work and even enough room to have another person work along with me. Tom can build stretcher strips and frames without getting rained on. Amazing.

Work Table Magic

Having the right furniture, equipment and tools for a working studio is "Magic". I work in three separate studio spaces, two of which are in my home and one is in a studio building which my husband who is also an artist, build for us about a year ago. We are still in that mode of getting settled and comfortable and yesterday we added a wonderful new 4' x 8' work table so that I can better work on a series of wall pieces which are all roughly 7+ feet square. Prior to this I would have been trying to square up my finished work on a 6' x 30" table which is very difficult at best. I use one of my spaces for my mid-arm sewing machine and frame and the other space is where I cut, piece and construct my textile pieces. I spend a great deal of time in one studio space or another and if I am not there you can be sure I am thinking of my studio and what I will be doing there soon.