Heather Martin grew up on the South Shore, spending her summers in Fairhaven and eventually relocating there in 2021. She received her BA in Visual/Media Arts from Emerson and a Master's of Art Education from UMass Dartmouth in 2022. An artist for most of her life, she worked in corporate communications and several radio stations before starting her first arts-based business The Pour Artist, in 2013, while at the same time beginning her teaching career. Beginning her career as a classroom teacher in 2017, she was first required to teach ceramics which led to her intense focus on abstraction and a fascination with texture in clay, especially what can be found in nature. Heather now owns Rising Tide Pottery Studio in New Bedford, MA which opened in August of 2024.