Artist Statement

Heather Jones is a mixed media Artist living and working in Hadfield in the Dark Peak. Her work is often multi layered and she creates fictional landscapes which often feature figurative elements such as faces and people. She sells originals, prints, original cards and tote bags featuring her designs.

She includes printed/painted elements, photos and cut-outs from a variety of sources in her pieces to create vibrant, thought-provoking pieces.

Although not immediately obvious to the viewer her work includes her photographs which are taken in and around the landscape in which she lives. She is interested in the minutiae of her environment such as textured bark, lichen on rocks and the frothy patterns on the dark brown streams of the Peak District and she photographs these on her phone, prints them and collages them into her pieces. Her work is all produced in an analogue way without any digital input .

Heather works in a very free-flowing and organic way and often doesn't have an end product in mind when she begins a piece; she is led by the materials and what they suggest to her. For example a discarded piece of collage material by its shape and colour will inspire ideas and the creative process will begin and Heather describes much of her work as emerging from a "happy accident".

Heather's work has a distinctive style and yet every piece is unique. Her pieces are vibrant, bold, experimental and not constrained by convention and they challenge the viewer to form their own interpretation.