Heidi was born in DuPage county Illinois, United states in 1991, to northern state parents, and moved to Mountain Home, Arkansas where she was raised & lived for two thirds of her life. Upon running away from home, she swore if she lived past age twenty five, she would endure her life’s passion as an artist regardless of circumstance. Now is she had lived in Kansas City since 2014, exploring femininity and function in new forms of oil painting and sculptural mediums.
Unconditional Love and Feminine Esoterica
is what helped to keep patient when Heidi was held back twice from Art school while growing up, despite strong promise and academic excellence in her passions for Fine Art. As an formal artist, Heidi is primarily self taught. She learned the majority of everything she knows formally from Debra Hardgrove M.A. during her general studies in University, only to continue her personal studies through her journeys to freedom and healing in Kansas City. Her love of old expressionist masters and her Austrian, Slavic heritage shines through her subject matter with art nouveauic poise; while her color pallets give nod to her online inspirations and social residency. Through experimentation and determination, she has formed her own unique style that continues to transform and push the whimsical and whisper messages in the power of humanity, and cherishing the good in people.
Heidi creates expressionistic paintings, digitally and traditionally, with signature symbolic embellishments of nouveauic gold foiled reliefs. These embellishments of canvas vermeil convey a language of magick and wonder that she has found while exploring her inner world and her spiritual journeys since she was a young child. Her autonomous process takes the viewer into the meaning of the soul and pursuit of spirituality. Lighthearted tones and beautiful visuals act like dreams frozen in time, keeping their secrets until unraveled for deeper interpretation.
The importance of her early work centers around the philosophy that humanity's needs for deeper meaning can be found through the practice and involvement of dream interpretation, symbolic communication, and the unfathomable beauty of emotional intelligence and exploring celestial and natural arcana on ones own terms. Her post pandemic repertoire focuses on unearthing her ethereal treasury and releasing her visual conversations surrounding humanity, the meaning of life, and what is mysticism in a modern age.
Curriculum Vitae
Education
2014
Associate of Funeral Sciences and Grief Counseling,
Arkansas State University Mountain Home
2012
Associate of Liberal Arts,
Arkansas State University Mountain Home
Concentration in Fine Art and Design Education
- Awarded the Academic Achievement in Fine Art
2009
Art Institute Of San Francisco
Continuing Studies Summer Courses
Solo Exhibitions
2024
Celestial Escape
Hollembeak Gallery, SMUUCH
Lenexa, Kansas
2020
(CANCELLED DUE TO COVID - 19)
2010 Art Gallery, Prairie Village, Kansas
Select Group Exhibitions
2024
ColorPop 2.0 - 80 Sante Fe Gallery - Overland Park, Kansas
2021
BTCLT Gallery - Visual Artists Group - Los Angeles, California
2019 - 2020
2010 Art Gallery - Prairie Village, Kansas
2012 - 2014
The Vada Sheid - Mountain Home, Arkansas
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Overland Park, Kansas
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2012 Academic Achievement Awards in Fine Arts, ASUMH
2010 AYAA Third Place On-Site State Competition Mixed Media
2009 AYAA Third Place State Competition Sketchbook
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July 26 2013, Baxter Bulletin - Haley Collection Inspires Artist
July 24 2013, ASUMH - ASUMH Student Voices – Heidi Botscharow