Anke Humpert is a true mixed media artist, some have even described her as a Renaissance person! Since early childhood, she has been working with any medium that she lays her hands on. In her teaching she offers to help her students to find their own voices. She offers her own projects, but encourages everyone to try out their own ideas! Her passion as a teacher is to enable her students to become more confident in using their own voice.

Anke´s work is very intuitive and multi layered. Her interests are especially in working with paper, painting, stamping, polymer clay, altered books, scrap booking and bookbinding. She likes to incorporate used and found objects in her art. She prefers do use her own made tools and likes to go into depth with her techniques. But she also like quirky things and you can often find little funny twists in whatever she does.

Anke is a fully qualified architect, who studied at the University of Fine Arts in Berlin, Germany. Her training was very free and encouraged finding her own path. She has written several books about polymer clay and stamping in German, been published in various magazines and online, has been in a German TV with her polymer clay work and teaches workshops nationally and internationally. She is one of the five heads of the German Polymer Clay Group.