Idaho based artist, Heather Martindale, has been working in oil paint for over 10 years.  She blends her love for old master paintings of drapery and mystery, with her personal, emotional connection to the symbolism of fabric.  She really found herself as an artist while creating her culminating exhibition to complete her Bachelor of Fine Arts degree.  She was introduced to the iconic dancer, Martha Graham, and her performance ‘Lamentation’.  This was a big inspiration to Heather’s Show titled ‘Incandescent’.  The show was so well received by the art community and faculty that  each piece was sold by the end of the one week exhibition.

Heather is passionate about evoking an emotional response from her viewer.  Visual art can tell stories and speak to the viewer in a way that can not be put into words.  She has evolved from painting statuesque drapery to fabric in motion.  All have elements of the human figure but abstracted enough that it causes you to think about what you are looking at.  A lot of what brings Heather’s pieces to life, is the light that is captured.  Whether it be refracted light in the shadow of each fold or the light shining through the sheerness of the fabric.  This luminescence gives an enchanting quality to her work.