Heather Farrell

I am a contemporary painter, living in Los Angeles.
My current paintings and drawings center around themes of fading memories, impatience, urgency, aging and grasping for control. A sense of longing and loss that runs deep as we deal with a fast-paced world dominated by our electronics, social media, slow downloads and our own brain limitations grappling with adaptations.
My latest body of work centers around fading memories, impatience, urgency, aging and grasping for control, which are really just alternative words for an overall theme of longing.
Some of my work draws from past childhood memories and trying to reconcile certain events coupled with a feeling of loss from fractured relationships. The painting process or the assemblage of mixed media can provide a meditative or contemplative aspect and with that process, a subtle healing of past painful, childhood memories can occur.
Some work draws from abstracted imagery I’ve come across on my phone as it slowly downloads to a recognizable image.
Both types of imagery and memory retrieval have parallel similarities and lead to a certain abstraction and haziness of the images attempting to be conjured, fully realized and made better sense of. While it can be very frustrating f...

Art Institute of Boston - Lesley College

My work is currently being represented by Cerbera Gallery and Quogue Gallery. I have worked with interior designers nationally creating specific commission pieces for clients.