Bios

As the daughter of a craftsman finish carpenter, Anna grew up playing in the sawdust of her dad’s jobsites where she was imbued with a sense of how hard work and skilled craftsmanship connects us to the world of nature while reflecting our life values. After a day on the jobsite with dad, Anna would come home to find that her mother, Nancy, had carefully selected and saved all sorts of materials for Anna to exercise her artistic creativity. Anna fell in love with art and structure at a very early age. Her very first “scale model” was an intricate replica of the Courville family home where she grew up. At the tender age of 7, this cardboard structure, complete with window mullions, wallpaper, shingles and painted gardens was the pièce de résistance of her early career.

When she took her first drafting class in high school, she began to realize that artistic expression wasn’t enough for her. She lit up in math classes and was energized by exploring aesthetics and spatial awareness. She began sketching structures that inspired her and, using them as a springboard for her own ideas, began free sketching from her imagination. She would often get so engulfed in her “projects” that she would need to forgo classes in order to “gain perspective and see the world.” Motivated by a desire to develop a sense of color, design and historic buildings, Anna filled her summers with jobs that fueled her love of design and nature as a carpenter’s apprentice, greenhouse worker, and one summer painting what seemed like a million lobster pot buoys.

Anna earned her Master of Architecture degree from Wentworth Institute of Technology, Boston. After graduating into WIT's accelerated honors program. Her thesis explored phenomenology, specifically in architecture. For those of us that aren’t linguistic experts, the short synopsis of phenomenology, simply put: although the relationship between our modern world and the natural world is often one of conflict, it is possible to strive to unite the two by creating a threshold to connect nature and the defining of "place."

Anna’s wheelhouse is best described as traditional New England Coastal with an appreciation for historically accurate details adapted to modern living.

Fun fact

Anna has been happily married to her husband, Jordan, since 2012. That’s not the funny part! Although it is yet to be officially corroborated or confirmed, Anna and Jordan may have the longest engagement on record as Anna “informed” Jordan in second grade that, eventually, they would be husband and wife.

Nancy has been organizing, encouraging, supporting and cheering Anna on since before Anna could hold crayons. She proudly displayed early Anna designs on her refrigerator and continues to be amazed at her daughter’s talent, tenacity and growth. After earning an Associate’s Degree in business and executive secretarial science from Colby Sawyer College, Nancy’s years of administrative office work in law offices and for the local school districts allow her to minimize the non-technical/artistic toll that running a small business can have on a growing firm. Nancy enjoys her role in bringing balance, structure and an ear eager to hear the creativity and challenges that each project brings.

Fun fact

Nancy is a church pianist at the Nobleboro Baptist Church and enjoys using her musical talent at weddings, funerals and other special events.