About the Artist

Born in Buckinghamshire, Heather spent her formative years on the Lizard Peninsula in Cornwall where her father was an artist and Studio Potter. After a B.A degree at Falmouth and Exeter she returned to Berkshire where she shared a studio with her father, producing copper-plate etchings that she sold in London, in Liberty’s and the Medici Gallery in Bond St. She attributes the strong qualities of light in her oil paintings now to an apprenticeship spent describing light and landscape in black and white aquatint before developing it into large watercolours of sunlit gardens. “Light is the thread that has…

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