Our home and the artist residency house, are located 50 minutes north of Lisbon in a tiny village called Salgueiro (Carvalhal, Bombarral). We are 20 minutes from Caldas da Rainha, a UNESCO World Heritage City for Ceramics; 15 minutes to Obidos, think medieval castle UNESCO City of Literature; 30 minutes to the ocean; 12 minutes to the small city of Bombarral, and 10 minutes from the Buddha Eden Garden. There are also several amazing things to see within an hours drive from our place: Nazare, Tomar, Sintra, Alocbaça, to name a few. So while the home and studio are remote, we are close to many inspiring locations. If you'd like to explore we recommend renting a car.

• Private bedroom in a small 3 bedroom house with living room, full kitchen, bathroom with standing shower (shared if anyone else is staying, max 3-4 guests total).
• Secondary bathroom with shower in the studio.
• 24/7 home studio access
• 2nd floor balcony with dreamy sunrise views
• Fresh citrus and garden veggies, when in season.
• Access to acre + yard and garden (garden in process)
• Lots of privacy and quiet (some barking dogs and farm tractors can be heard. It’s an agricultural village)
• Wifi (can be spotty at times)
• Some shared meals with Nick and I 

Like most studios, ours is a constant work in progress. We're boot strapping this thing and learning and building as we go. Our dream is to create a community creative space for artists from all over, but if there's one thing we've learned in our first year in Portugal, it's that EVERYTHING here happens very slowly, and we're trying to embrace that. So while we have big plans, here's the layout of the studio now.

The studio is split between a large garage space, also known as Where the Magic Happens, and a room we affectionately call the In Between (as it's the room that connects our little house and the residency house). 

The In Between has a wall of windows overlooking the patio, and we are slowly filling the room and the patio with plants.

• 5 electric pottery wheels
• Basic studio tools for wheel throwing and hand building projects
• shelving for storing projects
• damp boxes
• work table
• sinks inside and on the patio for clean up

Where the Magic Happens (aka The Garage) Don't be fooled by the fact that this space was once a garage for agricultural equipment, it's got high ceilings, windows, and a giant sliding door that opens up to all the good natural light. It's got the rest of the studio goods:

• slab roller
• 60 liter top loading electric kiln (fires to cone 6)
• 80 and 198 liter (7 cubic feet) top loading electric kilns coming in early 2027 (we have the kiln but not enough electricity to fire it... YET)
• Glaze area with minerals for mixing glazes, and a few buckets of our in house made glazes.
• large work table
• wedging and reclaim areas