Anna Maria Horner grew up in a house full of her dad's paintings and with a closet full of her mom's handi-work. As a kid in the 70's, she passed up the $1.79 Barbie dresses in Service Merchandise, opting instead to create designs from her mother's fabric scraps....an artist was born.

After graduating with an honors fine arts degree in drawing, Anna Maria opened Handmaiden, a clothing and housewares boutique. This store served as homebase for all her fashion and design interests. Here, she also began a line of highly sought after handbags, intricately fashioned from an array of materials, that made their way onto Hollywood's red carpet. Anna Maria has also been exhibiting paintings in galleries throughout her whole adult life. No matter the medium, the hallmark of Anna Maria's art would have to be her masterful sense of color and her ease of composition. Her knack for versatility and desire to create beautiful things eventually would turn towards freelance product design.

Whether its a cleverly witty birthday card, a ceramic dinnerware collection or a luscious designer textile, Anna Maria's goal is simple: "Create designs that make the consumer feel alive and well". She has a zeal for life and family, and is constantly inspired by the beautiful sights and sounds that are present in her busy mother-of-five lifestyle! Anna Maria and her husband, Jeff, make their home in Nashville, where she develops her art collections in her homestudio. Juliana, Nicolas, Joseph, Isabela, Eleni and King Leo the yellow lab keep life at an excitedly fast pace.....just the way the artist likes it!