Heather is a designer, printmaker and painter. Her work is anchored by an interest in patterning and motif. The compositional interplay of formal and abstract elements- color, line and shape provide an endless language for expressing impressions about time, place and states of sensory awareness. The hope is to give pictorial form to what is often elusive.

Heather studied painting as an undergraduate, receiving her BFA from Boston University School for the Arts, and completed her MFA from the University of Oregon’s School of Art + Design. She has spent many years designing textiles and architectural graphics, as well as teaching design and color theory, all of which have informed and inspired her studio projects. Cross-pollination between these areas fuel a continuous exploration of visual language.

Much of Heather’s work is conceptualized as series, where an original theme or image provides the basis for an iterative, ongoing process of production and editing. She experiments with different materials and printmaking techniques, working with the inherent qualities of both to produce rich, dynamic and evocative imagery.