Heather was born in Wayzata, Minnesota. She received her bachelor’s degree in Fine Art from Colorado College, with a focus on landscape painting and she received her Masters in Landscape Architecture in 2000 from the University of California, Berkeley. She has studied painting at L’Ecole des Beaux Arts through the Cleveland Institute of Art, in Lacoste, France, at the Marchutz School of Art in Aix-en-Provence, France, and at the Academy of Art University in San Francisco, California.

After working for 8 years as a successful landscape architect, she decided to get back to her roots and focus exclusively on her painting. She had her debut solo show, “Reuse, Recycle, Refurbish”, at 625 Sutter St Gallery, San Francisco, California, and numerous group exhibitions including “Northern California Landscapes and Cityscpapes” at Robert Allen Fine Art in Sausalito, California, “California Realists” at Art Zone 461 in San Francisco, multiple shows at Studio Gallery in San Francisco, “Urban Landscape” at 688 Gallery in San Francisco, and “Vernissage” at L’Ecole des Beaux Arts, Lacoste, France.  She has been pictured in the San Francisco Chronicle and is in the 2011 American Art Collector. She has shown her work in France, Colorado, Connecticut, California and New Mexico. She is represented at Robert Allen Fine Art in Sausalito, California and William and Joseph Gallery in Santa Fe, New Mexico. She currently lives and works in San Francisco.