About Me
SHY GIRL GIGGLING TILL SHE GROWS.
Bio
Central Massachusetts resident Emily Boughton has been rooted to the art world since the early years of her life. Her grandparents, Rhoda and Stuart Boughton were both professional artists who found beauty in the landscapes of their island home on Vinalhaven, Maine. Emily grew up admiring their paintings and wanting to peek into their studio where the smell of paints always overwhelmed the senses. Her grandparents’ watercolor pieces and oil paintings, as well as the lives that they lived, have inspired her throughout her life and throughout career as an artist.
She can trace her fondness of drawing back to childhood and even remembers reporting to her elementary school teachers that she wanted to be an author/illustrator. But her love of art truly bloomed in middle school when she joined an afterschool art club at the local YMCA. There she not only explored a variety of new mediums, including giant puppets, but gained a sense of community in art. She branched out to other clubs; designing logos for the Athol Teen Advisory Council at her local library which fostered an even stronger love for books that shaped her work years later. In high school, she explored new digital mediums and returned to the library to found her own art club for young adults.
When picking a college her choice seemed clear in the end. Staying close to the natural beauty of New England, she set out to the Berkshire region to study at Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts. There she nurtured her love of art and explored her interest in psychology, through a Bachelor of Arts and a minor focusing on behavior analysis. Looking to her Grandparent’s work and merging the practice’s base philosophies with her interest in design, and even photography, she created her most prominent project to date; the interactive book and exhibit ‘Figure me Out.’ She now lends her skills to designing web pages, logos, flyers and more in her community.