The Artist
Born in
Stockport in 1957, Heather Whittaker has always lived in the
area. The daughter of a Cornish mother and a father who was
Stockport born and bred, she was drawing from a very early age.
She attended
Stockport College, aged seventeen, where she took a Graphic
Design course and gained the North West Regional Diploma in
Advertising Design.
However,
life took her in a different direction for many years and she
re-discovered her passion for art again around six years ago.
Now a member
of Stockport Art Guild, Heather has held exhibitions of her
work locally, and has had numerous paintings displayed in Stockport
Art Gallery.
Heather
paints very imaginative works, which are inspired by a strong
spirituality and uses rather unconventional methods to create
these. One such method, is to throw colours, randomly, onto
heavy paper and place this outside during a thunderstorm, bring
it inside, allow it to dry and then see what nature produced!
She then
works back into the piece, bringing-out all that she sees there.
Many of her pictures are inspired by dreams and an 'other worldliness'
that was with her from childhood. Heather says:
"'I'm
always pleased when people instinctively know what I'm trying
to say in a painting, I know then, that I have achieved my
aim. At one exhibition, a lady stopped me and explained everything
she 'saw' in my painting. She was so right! Apparently, she
had looked at that picture every day and thought it was beautiful.
She bought it there and then!"
A bit of
an amateur poet, Heather has also had some of her writing published:
"Words
fascinate me, because they paint pictures in the mind. Art
for the head. Sounds compliment and clash, in much the same
way that colours do and can be made to soothe or shock the
observer."
Heather
may be contacted by telephone on:
0161 430
2581
or mobile:
07980161578.
You can
see more examples of Heather's art at:
http://eyeart.deviantart.com
