Heather Albright is an oil and gouache painter based out of Portland, Oregon. She has a BA from San Diego State University and studied abroad for her senior year in Italy at Accademia di Belle Arte di Firenze. Her art has been collected internationally with a piece residing at The Museum of Contemporary Art of Florina in Greece. She has participated in numerous exhibitions in Italy and California and has been awarded an honorable mention at the Del Mar Fair in San Diego. Heather grew up in Mammoth Lakes, CA, where she found her love of nature and joy for exploring.

Heather’s work revolves around three main themes; intricacies of plants and flowers though each part of the life cycle; light and they way it interacts and transforms; and, her internal landscape where she explores and processes past childhood traumas and pivotal experiences from her life.

Even though the subject of each piece ranges, the golden thread connecting them is the compulsion to understand. At first, what seemed to be opposites colliding has turned out to be coexisting realities of hope & despair, calm & chaos, light & dark blending together into captivating paintings. She seeks to capture and express the complexity of ambivalence. The tension between experiencing two or more contradictory emotions simultaneously moves and compels her. Heather is learning how to embrace the complexity and beauty found in these juxtapositions and contradictions – pulling us forward and together as we seek to better understand ourselves.