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Gordon’s A-frame studio built on top of his garage had the kind of privacy and good light that made me want to create something there myself.

Marianne told me, “I got to know the Burren first as a teenager. The landscape felt like a dream, like going into another realm. I had to go back at least once every year to get my fix.”

“In my view—and after 30 years of experience with students coming here—the elemental connection to nature here helps people connect with being human in an increasingly alienating world.”

The Abbey was originally called “St. Mary of the Fertile Rock”—and I find the term “fertile rock” a great descriptor of the Burren.

When I returned to the Burren, I found out firsthand what inspires artists and other creatives about places like the Burren