Heidi Howard

In Howard’s portrait work, the artist’s interpersonal connection in the here and how is underscored, illustrating the sitter through their cultivated space and personal effects, energetically deploying abstraction and pattern. Community, an invisible thread that shapes human action, is a benchmark of Howard’s work, as seen in their nearly 20 years of painting portraiture. Their process and style changes with each sitter, reflecting images, energies, tastes, and smells that emerge over the course of the painting. Human and floral subjects thrive side by side, blending through compositions and informing one another.