“Free to be me among the delicate petals of possibility.”
— Heather Karp
Artist Statement
I long to express my emotions through color, shape and line letting the marks I make unfold into a story that weaves the chaos that sometimes exists in my mind with the beauty I know to be reality. I interpret the noise in my head as both broken and beautiful with soft moments, harsh moments, moments fighting each other while others embrace. Edges and values speaking to one another, colors coalescing, and lines and shapes working together to create a place of quiet beauty within the chaos. I feel, see, and hear color as a song wrapping itself around my mind, protecting me, and reminding me of the beauty in this world as well as the fleeting nature of thoughts and feelings. Everything I paint is through the lens of distortion whether a landscape, floral or face allowing me to lean into the visual disturbances of my mind and move through the dissonance finding peace through process.
Whispering their silent love songs.
Grounding me.
Forever touched by their quiet beauty.
Biography
Heather is an award winning abstract painter and digital illustrator living in Massachusetts. She works at 14 Cedar Street Studios in Amesbury, a collective of over 20 artists working in varied media. Her studio is one of many that resides in an old mill building complete with floor to ceiling windows and amazing amounts of natural light.
Her work has been described as “painted with super power energy,” “alive” and “full of raw emotion” bringing joy and peace to those who view and collect her work. Heather respects the words of other artists and was moved by Kathryn’s comment in May 2024: “I love your process, and the beauty that comes from it.”
Heather’s work has been shown all throughout the United States and Canada in solo and group exhibitions and been featured in multiple magazines and newspaper across the country.