ABOUT
For Heidi, layering is both a physical process and a meditation on the way experience is held within us. She embraces the inherent unpredictability of encaustic—the way wax can soften an image, fracture it, preserve it, or cause it to recede—and the balance between intention and surrender that emerges through the process. The layers preserve evidence of what came before while allowing it to become something new.
Light remains a central thread throughout her practice. In photography, light reveals; within encaustic, it moves across and into the surface, interacting with translucency, texture, pigment, and depth. Heidi is drawn to light not only as a visual element, but also as a metaphor for connection—the intangible force through which the seen and unseen may intersect.
A profound personal encounter with mortality and consciousness through a medical near-death experience has further influenced her exploration of impermanence, presence, and the nature of the soul. The experience deepened her awareness of the fragility of a moment and her curiosity about the unseen forces that connect human experience to the larger natural world. These ideas remain intentionally open within the work, allowing space for individual interpretation rather than offering a singular conclusion. Heidi explores the threshold between what can be seen and what can only be felt. Her work is an invitation to look beneath the surface—to consider memory, presence, and the quiet threads of connection that move through both the human experience and the natural world.
Heidi’s work explores the space between the visible and the unseen—where light, memory, nature, energy, and consciousness intersect. Through encaustic mixed media and fine art photography, she creates atmospheric works that invite viewers to look beyond the immediate image and consider what may exist beneath it.
Her relationship with art began at an early age. During her high school years, Heidi was recognized as Senior Artist of the Year and was a member of both the National Honor Society and National Art Honor Society, establishing an early foundation in artistic exploration and visual expression. She later earned a degree in International Business, with focused studies in Art and Art History. While her professional path ultimately led her into photography, her formal education and early artistic foundation have remained an integral part of her creative perspective.
Her artistic practice is deeply rooted in a more than twenty+ year career as a professional photographer. Years spent observing people, places, light, and fleeting moments cultivated an intuitive understanding of atmosphere and visual perception. Her photography career has taken her around the world, documenting intimate human moments, luxury celebrations, and individuals from the public eye, with her work appearing in magazines and news publications. Photography taught her to recognize the significance of what is revealed within a frame, as well as what remains just beyond it. Her transition into encaustic has expanded that inquiry from capturing a moment to physically building its layers—allowing an image to emerge, dissolve, and transform.
Her works are constructed through an intuitive process of layering wax, pigment, photographic elements, natural materials, and other mixed-media elements. The resulting surfaces possess a quiet tension between presence and absence, clarity and obscurity. What initially appears abstract may reveal fragments of landscape, movement, memory, or light, while other elements remain deliberately unresolved.
A student of life
in this soul journey
diving further
into discovering depths
and layers
of subjects that radiate energy
and movement
and further exploring
a fleeting moment and
to feel it
over and over again
with a soulful connection.
Using multidisciplinary artist methodology
to convey a subject
to the full extent.
THE STUDIO | conception. actualization. fruition.
encaustic.
Encaustic is this incredibly beautiful ancient medium that dates as far back as the 5th century B.C.. The term "encaustic" comes from the Greek word "enkaustikos," which means, "burning in." Encaustic is a technique of taking a combination of beeswax with damar resin and using heat to fuse together layers and layers of wax and other media on a substrate. It creates this hard yet fragile art that contain so much depth. The process and organic rawness of it is what draws Heidi to this particular medium so much. Each piece is lengthy in time to create as she works in large format. Then each piece takes six months to one year to fully cure…so patience is a constant practice with this method of creativity.
photography.
Fine art photographs are offered for printing in a few different ways:
Fine art prints (giclée process) are made using archival inks and museum grade archival rag paper with a 1/2-1 inch border. Prints are signed, numbered and include a certificate of authenticity and unframed.
Metal: photographs are directly printed on brushed metal and offered with custom float frames.
Acrylic: photographs are printed on archival fine art paper laminated under acrylic and offered with custom float frames.
All images are taken with Leica and Fuji cameras.
