about
bio
As a visual translator, Heather MacAskill explores movement through colour, line, and texture in various two-dimensional media.
She finds inspiration in typography, cartography, physics, astronomy, flora, fauna, Canadian history, geography, and the interaction of light
on water.
“We don’t see things as they are, we see things as we are.”
The study of landscape began in Ontario, in the medium of black and white photography with her father's influence and guidance.
Design has become an intuitive underlying structure.
Drawing en plein air and blind contour drawing has become a creative meditation.
“U have to learn the rules before U can break them.”
Heather MacAskill believes that drawing and design skills are essential to create a strong painting. She connects to Canada's landscape through cross-country skiing, mountain biking, and hiking. Obsessed about letterforms, book and page design, and colour systems, Heather MacAskill also has professional experience in advertising, print and website design, illustration, photography, and architecture.
“Writing about Art is like Dancing about Architecture.”
Heather MacAskill has exhibited her visual art in solo and group exhibitions in SE BC since the 1990s, after a cross-Canada trip with her child. Her visual art is in private collections in Canada and the U.S. She has been based in Nelson British Columbia since 1991.
“Visual art is my path to channel the energy of ideas
and creative self-expression.
My painting process is an experiment of colour and line,
and records an ephemeral dance on a surface.
My drawing process is a meditation.”
“Making A Mark” exhibition at The Capitol, 2015
“A work of art is never completed, only abandoned.”
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about this website + thanks
This website is an online gallery created to display the artwork of Heather MacAskill and her ongoing creative projects.
As a perfectionist with a curious mind who loves to design and write, she enjoys designing web pages and writing code in HTML and CSS – an ongoing learning process, made easier by W3Schools.
Merriweather is the fabulous typeface (font) used on this website. It is designed by Eben Sorkin.
Notepad++ is the handy, dandy open-source program used to write the code for this website.