meet tall grass
Lindsay is a multidisciplinary creative with a background in design, visual branding, and creative production. The thread that connects her work is her love of being outside–studying patterns in nature, movement through outdoor spaces, and the emotional connections and senses experienced while interacting with natural environments.
Willie is a born Vermonter and former finance/international development person turned artist. Years ago while ostensibly writing a novel, he was finding himself, instead, walking in the woods of Vermont looking at trees and old farm walls. He began building with stone and was hooked, eventually earning Level II certification by the Dry Stone Walling Association of Great Britain.
meet tall grass
lindsay & willie
As life partners and business partners, designing and building together has been special. We’ve made staircases and orbs, cairns, interactive sculptures, snaking walls. Arches, fire pits, and areas for gathering that we wish we’d built closer to where we live so we could visit more often. We’ve photographed outdoor celebrations, moments with friends, our projects, patterns in nature, the details that inspire us, landscapes where we spend time, and the animals that share these spaces.
Willie is a Level II certified waller with the Dry Stone Walling Association of Great Britain, and Lindsay brings a background in design and creative production. Together, we blend a shared love of the outdoors, artistry, and technical skill to design and build with stone—crafting outdoor workshops, site-specific art experiences, and custom installations that are timeless, personal, imaginative and full of character, and inspire more time with nature.
We love how present this work requires us to be, how it keeps us grounded in the moment, and the ways it challenges us physically and mentally. We're grateful for the welcoming and inspiring community this work has introduced us to and for the connections we feel with the natural world while working in the forests, fields, and yards. From curious birds and foxes watching from a distance, to chipmunks claiming their spots among the stones, we’re constantly reminded of the magic and interconnectedness of nature, and look forward to those moments each day.
what guides us:
gravity, new england fields, forest elves & stone stories
We believe in the beauty of simplicity. Our dry-laid stonework relies on the natural balance of materials—no mortar, just gravity, friction, and trust in the process. This timeless technique inspires us to create structures that not only endure but also honor the landscapes they’re part of. Throughout this process we’re always asking ourselves: How can we use stone to highlight the beauty of its surroundings? How can our work deepen people’s connection to the spaces they inhabit? These questions push us to experiment, learn, and grow with every project.
Growing up and traveling in New England we see stonework everywhere—walls along roadways and edging fields and punctuating gardens, stone steps leading us through forests and across yards and into homes. Stonework is such a normal part of our experience that much of it goes unnoticed. And this is often intentional: someone just needed a structure that blends in as it silently does its job. But then there are the works that make us stop and take a closer look. They inspire a moment of awe. These works make us wonder how they were built, by whom and for what reason and how long ago—did this wall keep out hungry wolves in winter? Does this cairn commemorate the life of someone special? Was this stone circle the site of ancient rituals? The physics of this arch seem impossible, was it constructed by magic forest elves?
These moments, questions, and feelings fuel the ideas that we bring to life at Tall Grass—where we design and create personalized stonework that reminds us to stop and pay attention to the world outside of our heads. Because stones tell stories, and it’s only when we are in stillness that we hear what the stones are saying, and in turn, what we are saying to ourselves. These could be bold and playful stories, lingering in our memories, or subtle ones that keep us company as we move through space, on our way. We believe that each day, at least once, we should all stop in awe of something. This is why we aim to craft spaces that invite wonder and pause—respite from the busyness of daily life. Whether we’re building a custom stone installation or hosting an art experience, our mission is to spark curiosity and inspire moments of connection, reflection, and a sense of play. We can’t wait to share that magic with you.
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why tall grass?
That feeling: when we’re consumed by a thought that just won’t leave us. We’re driving and ruminating, thinking of the myriad permutations of what might happen, what did happen, what we’re going to do next, and we pass by a farm field. We realize that there’s a breeze outside the car that we hadn’t noticed before, and it’s sweeping in slow, long swells across the tall grass. Anything unmoving suddenly stands out. The field becomes the sea, interspersed are trees and fences and a house, and they’re all now islands. We see the hawk hovering high above, searching the grass for food, and we wonder what it sees that we don’t. We blaze onward in our car, thinking about all of the animals that could be down there. And then like that, we’re kids again, on our backs in the tall grass looking up at the sky. The sun is bright as the grass around us sways and rustles and it feels like we’re underwater, like clown fish nestled in anemones. We’re safe and hidden and could just stay there forever.
When we started building things from stone, our workshop was surrounded on all sides by hay fields. We spent the summers working in the hot sun and rain building structures to be as permanent as we could make them. Progress ebbed and flowed along with feelings of accomplishment and frustration. After a work day was done, we sometimes walked out into the field, lay down, and observed our progress through the waving grass. We were struck by the contrast of the fluid grass and stubborn stone and realized that in terms of permanence, we were somewhere between the two. It's these thoughts and feelings that inspired our name Tall Grass.
