The artist and her soul-mate.

Maria and Ed Gulley have a powerful relationship, they simply get one another creatively.

Maria was the first person in Ed’s life to tell him how good an artist he is, and he says it altered his life. He brings many of his ideas to her, and it is a joy for me to see the connection between the two of them, her honesty, her passion for encouragement, and Ed’s rising enthusiasm and energy for his art.

Ed is a strong man with a powerful personality. He makes up his own mind, but he listens to Maria and she is always honest and supportive of his work. Every artist needs a curator, I think. Ed values his, Maria has been a strong advocate for his work.

Ed is a dairy farmer, he and his wife Carol work brutally hard every single day but Ed is carving out time to make his sculptures and farm art. We went to visit him in his giant, three-barn studio and farm museum, I wanted to capture a slice of the wonderful relationship these two have.

Ed’s art comes from the farm, it is authentic and inspiring. He is on fire.

On the surface, Ed and Maria could hardly be more different, in reality they are very much the same. They are soul mates. Come and see. This was the birth of a new Ed Gulley idea, and a good one: the key wind chime. I wanted others to witness it.