About the Studio

The Studio

The Bird & Alley Studio creates small, story-driven houses inspired by real shorelines, neighborhoods, and memory.

Each series begins in a specific place—a rose garden, a stretch of coast, a wooded trail, a river’s edge. From there, individual homes take shape. Every piece is given a house name, an address, and a registry number. No structure is repeated. Each one stands as its own recorded home.

Together, they form a growing neighborhood—part imagined, part remembered—where place and story quietly meet.

The Artist, Robin

I come from a line of women who painted. My grandmother, great-aunt, mother, and cousin all made art long before I did.

After a long career as an entrepreneur and executive, I returned to making later than expected, influenced by my mother, who began in her sixties and worked with quiet brilliance.

My work is shaped by that sense of timing—of beginning when you’re ready, and of noticing what has been there all along.

I make each piece slowly, with attention to place, memory, and time. Some homes are rooted in personal landscapes; others are created in connection with people, communities, or causes—such as a recent piece made in support of the Pomperaug River Watershed.



Each house is meant to hold something—a moment, a feeling, a small sense of belonging.