Heather Friedli, 2023 Featured Artist
Heather’s work will be on display at Austin ArtWorks Center, 2nd floor gallery, during the Austin ArtWorks Festival.
Heather Friedli is best known for her contemporary impressionist oil paintings, depicting her family heritage and the land in which she lives.
Bold brush strokes and brilliant colors light up scenes of cloudscapes, water, and native flora. Many pieces are created in the context of her wilderness adventures; she often brings her paints outdoors to create work that shares with the viewer her experience of immersion in the landscape.
Heather’s work is an effort to synthesize her love and experience in the natural world, and wilderness adventure travel. Those experiences, being out in the world seeing the beauty and power of nature are represented in large scale paintings.
Heather Friedli was born in Los Angeles, CA in 1982. She received a Bachelor of Fine Art from the Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA) in 2005. In 2010 Heather Thru-Hiked the Appalachian Trail which upon completion inspired her to continue her work as an artist concentrating on painting the natural world.
She currently is enjoying life in Saint Paul with her husband Ben and sons Orion and Sirius.
Ziibaaska’iganagooday - Jingle Dress Dance
St Paul Winter Carnival 2021
First place snow sculpture
By Heather Friedli, Maggie Thompson, Juliana Welter
Lupine Views of Lake Superior
By Heather Friedli
33"x41"
Oil on Linen
The 2023 Featured Artist is funded by the Hormel Foods Corporation.
