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In 1996, Mandy Stapleford left the east coast and headed to California and worked in the movie business. After spending a year in Los Angeles, she headed back east, en route to the Berkshires, Massachusetts. Along the way, she stopped off in Taos, New Mexico to help my friends' Abby Salsbury and Dean Pulver build a house. That was back in January of 1998 and she's still in Taos...and loves it. Since then, she's bought land, built a straw-bale house and finally built my dream studio. Mandy Stapleford's work commingles human and animal characteristics. She is very influenced by the Spanish artist, Antonio Gaudi and by gothic architecture. Many of my pieces are human character studies, manifested in imp-like creatures. In her more abstract work, she is influenced by nature and the organic form in general.