Artist's Back to Basics

The Earthen Artist

Painting full-time since 2003, Heidi quickly established herself as one of Australia’s emerging artistic talents. Her reputation as a natural history, wildlife and botanical artist is well established. Her works have been exhibited nationally and internationally in prestigious exhibitions and can be found in significant public and private collections around the world including the Shirley Sherwood Collection of international contemporary botanical artists, and the Hunt Institute of Botanical Documentation USA. Here is her story so far …

Surrounded by the incredible natural world we live in, so full of wonder, intrigue, colour, vibrancy, harmony and endless surprises, it is easy to understand why one would choose this as a subject for painting, and how one can become quite absorbed within this. Seeing and

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