I grew up on Monhegan Island. My island roots go back more than four generations and include my great-grandfather Captain William S. Humphrey who delivered the mail by sail on his schooners "Goldsmith Maid" then "Effort". My father has been a lobsterman on Monhegan for more than fifty years, three of which I was his sternman. I received my Bachelor of Arts at Colby-Sawyer College where my senior year I won "The President's Award" for my ceramics. I currently live on Monhegan year-round. In the summer I have a studio and am the laundress at the Trailing Yew, and in the winter I'm an Ed-tech at the school and also teach Art, Drawing and Web Design. My first web design student created an award winning site honored by the "Maine Student Web Design Awards".

  "The more I work with children,
  the less I worry about where my art comes from."