artist statement
Growing up in a rural area, I explored my surroundings with hands and feet—running
through orchards, sloshing through streams, and working in the garden. Later, at home,
I would commit these feelings and memories to paper through sketches or writing.
As an adult, I continue to find joy in uncovering the beauty that surrounds me, and sharing
it with others through art. I am particularly influenced by the simple, stunning images of
the national parks produced as part of the WPA Federal Art Project.
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about the artist
Heather grew up on a small horse farm in the Finger Lakes region
of upstate New York. Through summers spent working on the farm, hiking and camping in the Adirondacks,
and exploring the national parks, her parents instilled in her a love and respect for nature and an appreciation
of the intrinsic value of hard work. She is a graduate of Cornell University, where she met her husband Alan on
the first day of cross country practice their freshman year. Almost ten years to the day later, they were married in
Letchworth State Park, as a bagpiper played the Cornell Alma Mater.
Though her ties to Finger Lakes remain strong, Heather has called Boulder home since 2004. She considers herself
incredibly fortunate to live in a place with so much history to uncover and so many trails beckoning to be explored!
A member of the Boulder County Arts Alliance, she studies at the Art Students League in Denver.
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