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
