As an artist, I am interested in many different techniques, and use quite a few in my own work. I quickly get bored doing too many of the same type of thing! I love color, textures, rocks polished or not – I just like jewelry, wearing it or making it. We should all be surrounded by beauty and art, and I am pleased to do my part to further that goal. [more]

The process of creating art has been an integral part of daily existence for my entire life. With a compulsion to constantly create, clay has been a natural avenue to release my aesthetic energy. Each piece of work must be a unique endeavor, for art in my mind, is infinite. [more]

I began drawing at age 5 while going to Bangor schools and have had a lifelong interest in art ever since. My favorite subjects to paint include landscapes, seascapes, flowers, and nature in general. Being an avid gardener and living in the beautiful state of Maine, provide endless inspiration for painting. [more]

It all started with Barbie the doll and making clothes and the fact that my mother was and still is an active sewer and craftswoman. From doll clothes to my own clothes in high school – gads – if I looked like anyone else! [more]

Scott and Beth Carpenter are the husband and wife team who design and handcraft Shaker-style furniture at the Carpenters’ Workshop. Their practical, hand-built pieces show careful attention to detail, and each one is thoughtfully crafted to last a lifetime and beyond. [more]

I have been a fiberholic ever since I found out I could make doll clothes and then went on to making my own clothes. I learned to knit at age 10, started weaving pot holders with those loops, and then walked up and down the street selling them to neighbors. So I became an entrepreneur at a young age. [more]

I am not one who likes to read directions; I like to see where the road takes me. In high school, I had to take an art credit. I knew without a doubt that I did not like to nor could I draw. This left few options. Out of those options, I knew I would like jewelry class. I took this my Junior year to leave the possibility to take another year if I liked it. Turned out I did! [more]

An Orrington native and resident, I began doing stained glass in 2003 and it has become such a joy for me. I love to recreate flowers and sea life as well as Maine lighthouses. I enjoy making lamps as well as my annual Christmas ornaments. I also explore religious themes in small painted panels using ancient stained glass painting techniques.

Maine Sea Salt Company was started in 1998 by owner Stephen C. Cook. Since the 1950s, his family has operated Cook's Restaurant and Pound in Garrison Cove. Restaurant patrons often commented on how the Cook's lobsters, prepared with sea water, tasted better than other lobsters. Forty plus years later, Stephen began his quest to 'bring the ocean to everyone'. [more]

At Savour Chocolatier we take pride in making exceptional quality artisan chocolates and confections. Our truffles, caramels, brittles, toffees and chocolates are made using premium Belgian and Swiss chocolates, natural ingredients and no added preservatives. [more]

My art pieces are mostly nature oriented and inspired by the world around me. My love of nature is nurtured by my husband, a wildlife biologist. Usually, ideas start as a vision. Getting an art quilt from vision to a completed piece is something akin to creative birthing. Every piece tells its own story which speaks to me. My hope is that it will find an owner that loves what I have created and that it speaks to them, too.

Creativity - no matter what medium it demands in the moment - is as important to my being as oxygen. I believe that we are imaginative, inventive beings to our core. To deny it would be folly. [more]

I have been designing and sewing totes, purses, and small accessories in Maine for over 10 years. I use quality tapestry fabrics woven in the USA, Italy, and Belguim. A perfect beautiful, yet practical, gift for yourself and others, my bags and accessories are sewn for years of use.

Casco Bay Soap Co. started simply as a hobby. Throughout the years, as more and more friends and family requested more and more bars of soap, I was encouraged to share my soaps with the public. Selling soap bars at local Farmers Markets has proven that many others are interested in old fashioned soaps as well. [more]

While living in Europe for her husband's job in 2009, Leslie re-discovered her love of photography, which she has transformed into her business, Leslie Green Photography. Leslie is very involved in community and church activities and is always looking for new people and places to photograph. [more]

Ginny and John Hackney combine passion, live flame and imported Italian glass to create one-of-a-kind glass beads and jewelry. This husband/wife team has been working with glass for over ten years, having trained at Haystack Mountain School of Crafts under nationally known glass artists. [more]

Maine-ly Cats began in 2000 when I was looking for a way to help fund my cat rescue work. It was then that the 'Original' Cat Napper was created. I wanted special sleeping mats for my cats so they felt cozy and comfortable while they snoozed. [more]

I hand spin yarns from my sheep and llamas and alpacas. I sell raw fleece, roving for spinning or felting, yarn machine spun or hand spun, and a few kits for knitting or felting, all from my farm in Winterport, Maine. [more]

Seaside Soap and Candle Co. is a mother and daughter adventure. We create beautiful pearlescent candles, and soaps made with an old-fashioned recipe. Our intention is to provide you with products that nourish your senses, spirit and body. [more]

I have always enjoyed creating beautiful things. My grandmother taught me how to sew when I was in high school and I guess that gave me the bug for sewing. After retirement, I added jewelry making to my creations and accumulated so much I decided it was time to start a small business. [more]

I design my journals wanting each one to not only be functional but pleasing to the eye. Striving to provide top quality in every journal, I use specialty papers from around the world and close to home. Making every journal as if it were for my own personal use or as a gift for a special loved one is my passion. [more]

Katenia Keller works as a choreographer and dance artist-in-residence. Her fascination with the ratios and proportions of natural forms and the geometrical and mathematical patterns of life inspired her to create her first Tarot card deck. [more]

I am an artist from Maine, specializing in custom, wire wrapped jewelry. I work mainly with sterling silver wire combined with Swarovski crystals, handmade lampwork beads, fused glass, gemstones, and seaglass. Using techniques such as chain maille, coiling, wrapping and sculpting, I transform my pieces into truly unique and elegant treasures. [more]

I live in rural Maine - about 20 miles to the nearest shopping. I am married and I have three kids. I am trained as an environmental chemist and I make and sell quilts. Most importantly, I am in high level management, getting the kids to school and activities everyday and taking care of the household! I love the outdoors, hiking, running, biking, snowshoeing, gardening etc.

Born in Dover-Foxcroft, Maine in 1946 before there were such things as computers, calculators, cell phones, or ATM\'s, Tom Lyford is a real-deal baby boomer. A 1964 graduate of Foxcroft Academy, Tom went on to get his B.S. degree in Education (English major, history minor) from Farmington State College, graduating in 1968. [more]

I first attended Unity College in Maine after high school and graduated with an Associate of Art degree in 1985. I have dabbled in a variety of crafts (pottery, batik, jewelry, and sculpture) but enjoy painting nature scenes, primarily wildlife in their natural settings. [more]

As a self taught artisan, I have been making jewelry for about 20 years. I started fashioning earrings for myself, my mother and my sister. Immediately I was hooked. I continuously experiment with designs, color, and combinations and my jewelry includes the use of Swarovski crystals, fresh water pearls and semi-precious gemstones. [more]

In 2006 I took my first felting class, and I was hooked! I've long been attracted to the fiber arts. Felting is a medium that lets me indulge my desire to play with fiber and color and turn those efforts into a variety of functional pieces. [more]

I got interested in making quilts about 6 years ago. I first started out by making myself a denim quilt out of my old blue jeans, that I had been holding on to, just hoping to find a use for them. And then I decided to make a baby quilt out of some pastel cotton material for a relative's baby and then I went to making multi-colored cotton quilts. [more]

I have been a teacher and administrator in public education for 38 years. I love working with students on a daily basis. I started knitting at 11 years old with my grandmother and began incorporating beads about 4 years ago after discovering beading. [more]

While I love to garden, paint and draw, my greatest creative joy is hand crafting beautiful jewelry out of found objects. I search for every piece of sea glass that I use, spending many peaceful hours walking the beaches. I use it in it's natural state, and find the tension between the organic shapes and the symmetry of design compelling. [more]

My love for woodworking came from my grandfather. Every time we visited him he was in his workshop, but when I was a child, he would not let me around the working tools. I have some of his patterns now. [more]

I began melting glass in 1996 without a clue that I had started down the road towards total obsession. It was a hobby. Since then our business has grown considerably and now includes our own line of specialty patterned dichroic glass, which we also sell to other glass artists, that differentiates our work from the run of the mill. [more]

I find peace in well balanced, highly structured work and typically create symmetrical pieces in a never ending quest to add calm to my life. I'm drawn to earthy textures and the colors of the mountains rolling behind my childhood home - reddish violet on an early winter morning, dark purple at dusk, and a faded blue about mid July. [more]

Gail VanWart grew up in Dedham, Maine on the farm that's been in her family since 1868. Besides being a farmer, Gail has a diverse background in publishing, writing, graphic design, community relations and marketing. Her poetry has been included in many anthologies and she has interviewed numerous celebrity artists for her freelance work. [more]

Julia Ventresco can see beauty in all things - recycled tarps morph into chic handbags, old wallpaper and maps into stationery, and grain and feed bags into one-of-a-kind totes. She fills her world with the items she recycles and repurposes with exquisite craftsmanship. [more]

My designs come from the play of colors in nature that I see as I sit at the loom and look out the window. Both bold and subtle colors run riot in my garden. My creation of practical things comes from the need to fit them into the house. I create things at that crossroad; beautiful as well as functional. [more]

I find perfection in the fact that nothing is perfect, and Iʼm sure that nothing I make is exactly the same. I enjoy working with copper and silver for the majority of my work, and the flowers I make reflect the fact that I see much beauty in my surroundings. [more]

Amy Faircloth (Maine author) • Joanna Porter (fiber art) • Stuart White (woodwork) • John Tercyak (musician) • Robin Switzer (fabric bags) • Everett Whittaker (stained glass) • Barbara Knowles (penny rugs) • Karen Lannon (sea glassware) • Blue Bodwell (cedar furniture)