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"Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint on it you can."
-- Danny Kaye
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Heather Home
The End!
My Styles
My creations tend to live in the nature-based and whimsical realms, but I enjoy creating all kinds of art. Drawing, painting, photography, digital, poetry.
My Accomplishments
I'm a professional artist with lifetime experience. I have sold at art shows and online, as well as through commissions. I also own my own face painting business working with the kiddos in my community, putting smiles on faces by way of colour and form and the latest, coolest butterfly mash-ups and superhero masks --- I find this deeply rewarding. I've won prize money in photography and receive accolades for my work in all mediums.
Brag, brag --- that's enough.
My Stories
I'm a little old lady artist, sipping tea and banging art with my little old lady artist friends. A good day is a creative day. Decades of pencils and paint and film photography… now into an era of art online and going digital, digital, digital.
My first camera was a gift from my auntie when I was just a kiddo back in the days of film... a little Kodak Instamatic. My heart would soar when I could manage to scrape enough pennies together to have the film developed and then to further see my creations once picked up from the pharmacy. They came in a little paper envelope and it was delightful to sift through them. In middle school I was fortunate to be nominated for a photography enrichment program by a kindly teacher who saw my potential. I was accepted and thrived, Today I have moved on to digital photography and scanography and I find it mesmerizing to try out the plethora of options we now have these days for creating images.
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While I did well in other subjects during my school days, art, of course, was my favourite and I managed quite well. To this day I still feel aggrieved over the memory of my 1st grade teacher's assistant expecting me to incorrectly label the colour tiles she held up during testing. "Mulberry" I would state. "No", she would say, "this is red" with a perplexed look upon her face. "Aqua" I would state. "No", she would say, "this is blue". *sigh* I had to be patient with her, but it was difficult... I was 5 years old! So funny. By 9th grade I was being featured on the walls of my school and was further sent off for a special evening at a high school studio in the big city, a privilege reserved for a select few students.
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What seems now like eons ago, a friend from one of my women's art groups got in touch to see if I would be willing to fill in for her doing face painting at a local semi-weekly music and light festival. She ended up giving it up completely. I loved it so much I decided to turn it into a business! Decades later I have painted countless faces in my community, along with arms, feet and knees, and even a baby bump.
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As an adult, women's and community art groups of all sorts were a real draw for me. I finally had the wherewithal to try out an endless array of materials and colours and I to this day cannot get enough of it. My studio is stacked with papers and paints and tapes and canvases and and and! My latest creation adventures involve a lot of online platforming and networking. I look forward to seeing what the years to come will bring for me in the way of colour and light and texture and mediums. My muses are always with me.
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P.S. I also love writing poetry and memoirs and more, but that's another story for another time. Thanks for sticking around to the end.
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