Blue Sunbeams Print

Heather Friedli is best known for her contemporary impressionist oil paintings, depicting her family heritage and the land in which she lives. Bold brush strokes and brilliant colors light up scenes of cloudscapes, water, and native flora and fauna. Many pieces are created in the context of wilderness adventures; she often brings her paints outdoors to create work that shares with the viewer her experience of immersion in the landscape. Within these colorful works, Heather explores the spiritual world through the lens of culture and lived experience of place. Heather’s work is creative, soulful, bold, and powerful. Heather Friedli was born in Los Angeles, CA in 1982. In 2010 Heather through hiked the Appalachian Trail, the completion of which inspired her to create a series of work highlighting her family’s native Odawa and Mexican Heritages within abstracted and dreamlike natural landscapes. She