Michelle Heron

"My work has always been interested in the spaces that are unused or forgotten and the traces where people have been. To me they invoke an air of mystery or foreboding. Be it the changing use of buildings, faded shop signs, graffiti on overlooked street furniture or places on the verge of being lost.

They are all things that I want to be recorded before being cleaned away. They are recordings of the streets as they used to be but also of today.

The paintings depict rich histories of a bygone era but also a sense of a sinister, eery and dystopian landscape. Ubiquitous shops once owned by generations of the same family now hang on the verge of being replaced with a less personal service, devoid of interaction and community. The shadows and light falling on the buildings give them a new perspective yet they remind you of the melancholy of the sun setting.

Their titles give away their topological identities to make them more personal and remembered. I want to give them meaning and a purpose, to be cared about."

Michelle Heron is a figurative painter (from Norfolk, UK). Following a degree in Fine Art at the University of Hertfordshire she spent the next 16 years in London. Her paintings have been exhibited at The Mall Galleries, Lon...

BA (Hons) Fine Art 2:1 University of Hertfordshire

2025 The Royal Society of British Artists, Mall Galleries, London 26 February - 8 March.

2024 ING Discerning Eye, Mall Galleries, London 15-24 November, Regional Prize Winner.
2024 Rogue Women 3, Rogue Studios Manchester.
2024 Artist Support Pledge and Jackson’s Award.

2023 Home, Green Door Gallery, Brussels.
2023 Art For Youth, The Mall Galleries, London.
2023 Postcards for Palestine, Prague.

2022
The Other Art Fair, London, The Truman Brewery
Young Masters Art Prize, Exhibitionist Hotel, London
Townhouse Open, Spitalfields, London
Tarpey Gallery Open, Castle Donington

2021
Bus Stop Gothic, online

2020
ING Discerning Eye, online exhibition.
Transient, online exhibition with ArtCan Org.
Stäying Sane, Berntson Bhattacharjee Gallery, Skänor, Sweden.

2019
D Contemporary Painting Prize 2019, Mayfair, London.

Elevate 02, The Shard, London.

The Auction Collective, Christmas Auction, The Menier Gallery, London.

The ArtCan Open - Trinity Gallery, London

Continuum - The Folded Space, Southend-on-Sea

The John Ruskin Prize, The Holden Gallery, Manchester - finalist.

From ArtCan With Love - ArtCan Org postcard fundraiser, Fitzrovia Gallery.

Royal Academy Summer Exhibition - Pre-selected.
Sussex Art Fair (West), Goodwood Racecourse...