Virgil Johnson

What am I retiring from? Go here.

Well, not totally retiring from drawing. Just getting back to more of something I love doing.

Started in college as a carpenter. Started building shoji in grad school.

Had a carpentry shop for all of my adult life.

Former architectural woodworker (San Francisco days) and former licensed California State general contractor.

Now I have a complete carpentry shop in Stone Ridge.

I do restoration and repair work (I really did do work on those famous Victorians), having been a license plumber and electrician in CA.

I also build cabinets and store fixtures and the ever popular garden gates, trellises, bridges, etc.

(I can of course make drawings of projects you have in mind.)

Rates reflect the times.

Virgil

Myrna Figueiredo

Yes, my last name seems to be a challenge for Americans to read, but you can have a pretty close accent by saying 'figure eight' with an "o" in the end. I am Brazilian.

Having grown up in Brazil, went to Art School, worked with computer graphics, and had a couple of business before moving to the U.S.A.

Arriving here 16 years ago I came to discover my passion for clay through some wonderful teachers, developed different techniques and practices which led me to teach in a couple of different organizations. I kept working with computer graphics until I bought a 1904 house which I and Virgil renovated and sold before moving to Stone Ridge.

Once in New York I've been working with Virgil in various projects from carpentry to visual impact as well as in my studio, with clay - architectural tiles, mosaics.

I'm also a graphic designer creating graphics and corporate identity for published, printed and electronic media developing websites and/or multimedia material.
(I built our websites and promotional/stationary material)

Myrna

The Builders

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807 - 1882)

All are architects of Fate,
Working in these walls of Time;
Some with massive deeds and great,
Some with ornaments of rhyme.

Nothing useless is, or low;
Each thing in its place is best;
And what seems but idle show
Strengthens and supports the rest.

For the structure that we raise,
Time is with materials filled;
Our todays and yesterdays
Are the blocks with which we build.

Truly shape and fashion these;
Leave no yawning gaps between;
Think not, because no man sees,
Such things will remain unseen.

In the elder days of Art,
Builders wrought with greatest care
Each minute and unseen part;
For the gods see everywhere.

Let us do our work as well,
Both the unseen and the seen;
Make the house where gods may dwell
Beautiful, entire, and clean.

Else our lives are incomplete,
Standing in these walls of Time,
Broken stairways, where the feet
Stumble, as they seek to climb.

Build today, then, strong and sure,
With a firm and ample base;
And ascending and secure
Shall tomorrow find its place.

Thus alone can we attain
To those turrets, where the eye
Sees the world as one vast plain,
And one boundless reach of sky.

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