Heather Murray lives in a quiet rural area not far from the small coastal town of Bar Harbor on Mt. Desert Island, Maine with her husband Jeff Butterfield and Maine Coon cats Rascal and Spirit.

Heather’s interest in the craft of jewelry making began in the Blue Ridge Mountains of western North Carolina with an intensive course at the Penland School of Crafts in 1992. After graduating from the College of the Atlantic in Bar Harbor in 1995, Heather attended several jewelry workshops at the renowned Haystack Mountain School of Crafts in nearby Deer Isle, Maine. She then worked for many years as a bench jeweler for a prominent Mount Desert Island artist. Each of these experiences provided invaluable opportunities for Heather to develop and refine her jewelry-making skills and they influence the inventive designs she produces today.

Heather feels fortunate to live in a beautiful natural environment and spends a great deal of time in nearby Acadia National Park running, climbing and hiking. A skilled rock climber, Heather has climbed extensively throughout the U.S. and still works occasionally as a rock climbing guide for her husband’s business, Atlantic Climbing School. Heather is also a trained yoga instructor and regularly teaches Vinyasa Flow classes at Cattitude in Bar Harbor.