Born in 1971 Heather grew up and was educated in Brighton, East Sussex.
In 1994 she graduated from the University of Brighton with a Hons Degree in Fine Art Printmaking. Heather achieved her MA in Printmaking at Camberwell College of Arts, London in 1999.
Heather moved from London in 2001 to become the Resident Artist, Printmaker at South Hill Park Arts Centre, Berkshire. During these successful three years Heather has developed her work through solo and selected group exhibitions, teaching, commissions and public art projects.
In January 2004, to mark the end of her residency Heather exhibited 'Landlines', her first large scale solo exhibition as an emerging artist at the Bracknell Gallery which showed her prints, drawings and floor installation work. At this time Heather became a studio member of the Reading based artist studios Open Hand Open Space. Here Heather has continued to develop her work through printmaking, drawing and mixed media pieces.

Concepts, Ideas and Themes
Inspired by the fabulous sense of rolling space and changing light of the South Downs, Heather is drawn back to this familiar landscape of her childhood, a gentle, unique space which she captures back at the studio through printmaking. Standing in this vast, peaceful landscape with sea and huge skies around her, Heather looks inland to the rolling fields and down to the ground – the rocks, earth and chalk for her inspiration and her material.
Fascinated by natural materials found in this landscape, she collects rocks, flint, chalk, seeds, grasses, leaves and other items, taking them back to her studio, and begins the process of bringing the landscape indoors, into a different context of the studio and gallery. These materials are her starting point alongside sketches and photographs, which are then translated into large scale drawings, and collages, where the collected materials are stuck onto her printing plates, creating richly textured surfaces.

Processes and Techniques
Her collograph plates have a real sense of immediacy and physicality as she creates her collages, re-working and re-drawing throughout. The scale of her work means that her expressive process of mark making is a physical and highly tactile one, as she builds the relationship with the variety of natural materials through a gradual process, always looking back to drawing.
Having varnished the finished collaged plates, Heather covers the plates with ink of her own creation, mixed from graphite powder and oil, and works the ink into the plates, wiping back areas and building up others. When rolled through the printing press these inked surfaces create rich, atmospheric collograph prints, depicting the undulating landscapes as well as the intricate detail of the printed textures of the natural materials taken from the landscape itself.