Heather Clements
MASTER ARTIST
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MEDIUMS: Drawing | Graphite | Watercolor
SPECIALTY: ✔ Technique
I love getting into the nitty gritty details of techniques to capture both playfulness as well as tight realism. I also care deeply that artists thoroughly enjoy their creative process. I’d love to strike a balance between technique, concept, purpose, and enjoyment.
ARTIST STATEMENT
We live in a culture that has lost our deep connection with our home: the wilderness, the Earth. In my art, I visually explore the relationships between the people of our culture and the natural world. This in itself is a paradox, because humans are not separate from nature, but a part of nature. My work reflects a positive message of hope for a symbiotic interdependence between humans and our organic surroundings.
Heather’s EXPERTISE
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Specialty: ✔ Technique
Technique:
Technique Demos
Providing Art Critiques
Teaching How to Self Critique
Marketing:
Social Media
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~ Elizabeth, Emerging Artist
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MORE ABOUT THE ARTIST
Heather Clements has used art as a catalyst for mental and emotional growth ever since she was a young child. While growing up in the D.C. metro area of Northern Virginia, Heather Clements never wavered in her pursuit to be an artist. She graduated cum laude in 2007 with a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore.
After graduation Heather moved to Panama City, Florida, where mere months later she became the owner of an art gallery and cultural venue space called Gallery Above. Hosting monthly art exhibits, weekly swing dances and film nights, and countless music performances of local and touring bands, Gallery Above served as the hub for the sub-culture of Bay County. 2 years later Heather worked at the local arts museum for a short while before deciding to leave and concentrate on her main love: creating art.
For 15 years Heather has been working as a professional artist and art instructor. Her work has focused consistently on humans and our connection with nature. Often combining playful abstractions with realistic portraits, her drawings, oil paintings, cut-paper, and watercolors have exhibited in galleries and museums all across the United States. She has had several solo exhibitions and won many awards for her work including several Best-in-Shows. Recently Heather has created many murals across Northwest Florida, and as far as New York City.
In 2018 climate change hit Heather and her entire area directly in the form of Hurricane Michael, which formed unusually and extremely quickly into a category 5. The hurricane not only destroyed Heather’s home leaving her displaced to temporary less-than-ideal living situations for almost 3 years, but it ripped away so much of the natural environment Heather loved. Over millions of acres, the hurricane destroyed 75-90% off all the trees, and 95% of the tree canopy. In the months following the hurricane, Heather also suffered multiple personal losses and challenges, all leaving her in a deep depression.
After a year without creating any art, drowning in trauma and loss, Heather decided to take a drastic step toward self-healing. She booked a tiny off-grid treehouse in the woods of the mountains of North Georgia for a week. Unplugged and isolated, she set out to heal through nature and art. She feared she might just cry for a week, but every morning she hiked and every day she created art until the sun set. She created works about loss that healed her. Inexplicably it worked far better than she could have ever hoped for. That week she clawed out of the depths of her depression, and has never been back.
In 2023 Heather relocated to Asheville, North Carolina, after falling in love with the mountains, endless forest trails, and thriving arts community. Asheville promised to be a haven in the changing climate, and yet recently Hurricane Helene ravaged her life yet again, this time sparing her home, but destroying the gallery and teaching space she belonged to in River Arts District. Through nature and art, and the arts community, Heather is healing again.
Her recent work has focused on interactivity: her new book, “Pull Me Apart” is full of pull tabs, spin wheels, and more, for people to manipulate and play. She has also expanded into creating interactive murals, where visitors can spin a giant wooden wheel, revealing different images behind cut-out areas of the design. Heather is embracing her inner-most weirdo, and creating the art that most wants to come screaming out of her. Paradoxically, when we create something truly for ourselves, it’s what others connect with most. For Heather, exploring that beautiful interconnectivity of us all motivates her continued creative pursuits.
