A native of California, Heidi's medium is OIL using products inspired by the landscape.  As a purist and old soul, growing up a farmer's daughter, Heidi was exposed to the scents and scenes of nature's lush cedar and pine forests, sandy beaches and palm trees.  She was a helping hand in the rice fields, peach and almond orchards with her multiple grandmas and her enduring mother, of four daughters, as inspiration. 

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Always seeking the "unique" Heidi offers defined textures and lavish amounts of oils, carefully layered onto the canvas, which she often waits many days in-between applying depending on the previous layer and humidity factors.  Heidi's works cannot be truly represented until one gets to see them up close and appreciate the depth and texture of each painting.  All of her impressionism and abstract originals are painted on gallery and museum quality canvas, putting most of the side depths between one and one half inches and two and a quarter inches. Her sculptures are painted with layers of cold wax and mounted on charcoal colored, powder-coated steel bases.

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She's trained in modern "cold wax" which is made from mixing beeswax into oil paint resulting in a luminous matte sheen which she paints on wood, canvas or paper. Teachers include world-renowned cold wax artists and authors Rebecca Crowell and Jerry McLaughlin, artist and arthur Serena Barton and artist Anne Bedrick.  She has studied oils under Kelly Viss, Nicole Slater, Derek Penix, Ben Miller, Sandy Veneman, Robert Merritt, Hannah Layman and Ellen Herod.  Heidi nourishes her creative expression through continuous study in California, Lake Como, Italy and San Miguel de Allende.  

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Heidi has been married for 28 years and has two adult children.  She is a world traveler. Community memories and blessings have been instrumental in shaping her passion and disposition.  The artist nourishes her inner being by giving back to her community, volunteering, hosting homemade meals, reading along with her bookclub and babysitting her nieces and nephews.  She feeds her faith through frequent worship, study and meditation.  She is sentimental to her local hometown in Northern California.

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   "We must not rush the hands of time"  

     Carlos Fuentes, Sr.

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