Artist Statement

I heard a novelist say once that a place doesn’t really exist until it’s been written about. What I think they meant is that it doesn’t exist in people’s imagination as someplace important and special until it’s been put there by some art form. That is my goal: to illuminate what I see all around me, here in Antigonish: to elevate it in your minds, from something mundane into something valuable. I want you to look twice at ordinary houses and notice the intricate tangled forms of the forest.

You can view more of my work at www.heathergabrielsmith.ca

Biography

Heather Gabriel Smith is an artist and a cartographer. She lives in Antigonish, Nova Scotia: her hometown and the subject of most of her art. Her primary medium is woodcut printmaking, but she also makes oil paintings and hand drawn maps.
Heather studied fine art at Queen's University and cartography at the Centre of Geographic Sciences (COGS). She has lived in British Columbia, Ontario, Manitoba, the Annapolis Valley, and Southern California.

You can view Heather’s work at www.heathergabrielsmith.ca