Artist Thadeus Beale’s path to being a collected, noted fine artist has been a surprising journey, from a young partner at a white-shoe Boston law firm to the Museum of Fine Art. Kris McGinn’s feature on Beale took her to his studio in Essex, where they talked chaos theory, a passion for expression, a life of craft, and muffins. Cricket editor Erika Brown talks with McGinn about how the story came together.