Heather grew up in the sleepy bedroom town of Park City, Montana. She studied art at the University of Montana in Missoula, and graduated from MSU-Billings with a B.S. in Public Relations and a minor in Art and Art History. Her love of art began at the age of four when she discovered a stray sheet of blue paper which had stuck to the top of the snow. When picking up the blue sheet it had magically changed the snow to blue. She quickly realized that she could transform the entire yard into beautiful art and covered the entire snowy backyard with multiple colors of dissolving construction paper. 

Heather’s obsession with white crayons had her parents chasing after her for drawing on anything that allowed the white color to appear. Her father kept encouraging her to draw inside of the lines but it was not within her comprehension; as it turns out, coloring outside of the lines is one of her greatest talents.

Heather’s individualistic, expressive style is distinguished by thick layers, urgent, strong markings or subtle washes as a way to depict the world around her, using her own interpretation of the reality she sees.