Mary Heebner: Figurative painter, collage, printmaking, abstracts
Mary Heebner, image from On the Blue Shore of Silence, Poems of the sea.
I first came across Mary Heebner’s art in the two books of Pablo Neruda’s poetry: Intimacies and On the Blue Shore of Silence. I’ve often turned to it since — both the books and her website — for inspiration when my painting is going nowhere.
Ninety-five percent of the results of creativity are failures. Derek Sivers has been very inspiration to me in the sense of asking himself, “How good was my failure today? What did I try that didn’t work?” That for me is a real inspiration. To every day try and do something that I could have failed at. That is part of the process. That acceptance of small failures.
- Kevin Kelly on CreativeLive
You can see more of her work on Saatchi art. She also has a gallery website separate from Maryheeber.com.
Below, a painting I did after first encountering her work.
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Here are some more of my favorite Mary Heebner paintings
The Outer Hebrides
Recent Projects And Random Thoughts
September 2nd, Heron Dance will launch a Kickstarter campaign to fund the printing of Meditations on Nature: The Beauty of Wild Places. There will be a number of premiums associated with this campaign including signed first editions of the book, art prints and other bonuses. You can keep up-to-date on developments on Kickstarter here. There is more on the book on the home page of the Heron Dance website.
The new art journal, Nurturing The Song Within, explores the inner work that underlies creative work, and creating a unique life.
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Nurturing the Song Within, a chronicle of one artist’s efforts to evolve.
A Pause for Beauty, a celebration of the beauty and mystery of the natural world.
