Heather Sorelli

Heather Sorelli is a Seattle-based artist. She has been painting with acrylics since her teenage years. Besieged by chronic headaches and migraines, she found that painting provided a release from the crippling pain. Heather, who has had no formal training, remembers thinking that painting provided a temporary release. The migraines have not completely faded, but her passion for painting has continued to grow and so have the accolades. Heather’s work is inspired by geography in most cases. It’s abstract in nature, non-subjective for the most part, evoking the wide-open landscapes and emotions that their titles suggest…Shanghai Prescription…Little Fiji…Tahitian Instinct…Tuvalu Tantrum. Viewing her work you can get the sense of the relief her own work has brought the artist. “I paint at night usually, and creating is intensely cathartic for me.” Her particular strengths lie in the imaginative usage of color, texture, and layering. Heather\'s latest projects have returned her to her first love, interior design. Restaurants, hotels, and various commercial venues have shown great interest in her works, and she has had exhibitions on both coasts as well as in the Caribbean. She paints with particular spaces in mind, and likes to call it, “art for intuitive design.”