Biography

Heather Watts (1979, Vancouver) is a multi-media visual artist exploring beauty and meaning in the shadow of contemporary Western culture.

Through vastly different forms, Heather’s work investigates the private, ambiguous realms of experience which have fallen through society’s cracks. On delicate pages torn from old books, she combines paint, pencil, ink, faux-gold leaf, found text and pictorial fragments to create a sacred visual vocabulary for a post-religious afterlife. Meanwhile, her 2017 system-generated painting series Self Changing Colors harnesses the open-ended creative power of contemporary art in ways that have helped her reclaim agency over her health.

She has exhibited her art in American, Canadian and European galleries, including the Art Gallery of Calgary, La Luz de Jesus, Los Angeles and M Modern, Las Vegas. Heather is interested in the cross-disciplinary space where art transcends its contemporary secular limitations and returns to its larger historical place as a vehicle of ritual, sacredness and power.

Her studio is in Vancouver, Canada.