Heidi Savage

Born of North Frisian and Scottish parents in Yorkshire England, Heidi immigrated to Australia in the 1970’s. Her verdant childhood in England, Germany and South East Asia combined with the raw world of Brisbane in the 70’s and 80’s are all contributing factors in her work to date. Heidi went onto professional training and graduated in Fine Art at the Queensland College of Art during its evolving years under Alan Warren’s directorship at Seven Hills.

Since graduating Heidi has worked in the industry variously as an exhibiting artist and curator but it is in her extensive overseas sojourns to Europe, North and Central America and more recently New Zealand that she has arrived at a source of inspiration that breathes and inhabits her work with a visceral silk which speaks of a soulful landscape reminiscent of the works of Chagall and Ryder with a nod to Caspar David Friedrich.

What has become most evident in the later period of her work is the change in palette; gone are the vibrant and severe colour combinations of her Navajo series and the somnambulist stroke of her Tuscan exhibition. What came was the more monochromatic gradation of tone that we see today.

In New Zealand she explored light and dark with a simplifica...

2019: Cert III Picture Framing Brisbane QLD

2006; Selwyn College Auckland, NZ
Certificate in Photoshop level 1

1989 ;Valma Pugh School of Interior Design Brisbane, QLD
Certificate of Decorative Arts and Interior Design

1983 ;Queensland College of Art Brisbane, QLD
Diploma of Fine Art

1980; Queensland College of Art Brisbane, QLD
Certificate of Applied Art

1989 Dreams & Discoveries Kenmore Gallery

1995 10 year Anniversary Exhibition Kenmore Gallery

1995 Paintings from North America & Bali Kenmore Gallery

1998 Paintings from Italy & Portugal Kenmore Gallery

2013 Seer & Scenery Percolator Gallery

2023 Land Sea Sky Artlovers Australia Gold Coast