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Background
Heather Horton was born and raised in Burlington, Ontario, Canada. She earned a Bachelor of Arts in English Literature from McMaster University, and then graduated from the Interpretive Illustration program at Sheridan College. She joined the Abbozzo Gallery in Toronto in 2004, and she has had numerous solo and group exhibitions since. In 2007, she was the profile artist for an episode of The Artist’s Life, a television series produced by Bravo! Canada. She lived in the Yukon Territory from 2013 until 2015 when she returned to Burlington.

Heather's work can be found in private and corporate collections in Canada, The United States, Germany, and The United Kingdom. The Government of Ontario's permanent art collection includes her 2008 painting Jade, Waiting, and a selection of her paintings is in the collection of the Canadian Embassy in Ankara, Turkey.

Eight of Heather's paintings were used as set pieces in Paul Feig’s film A Simple Favor (film). Production Designer Jeffery Sage said that “her quiet images of women in solitude provided an interesting point-of-view in the house of the troubled Emily”. Emily, a portrait of Blake Lively, was painted by Heather as a commission specifically for the film and inserted digitally during post-production.

Style and Critical Reception
Heather is a contemporary artist of the figurative art style. She uses oil paints on canvas or wood with a traditional approach to brushstrokes, tone, and composition to portray modern subjects, usually in isolation. Common themes of her work are aloneness, internal states, and personal contemplation, often with the subject distorted by being underwater, or behind clear plastic curtains, to emphasise the sense of alienation. She also paints still lifes, portraits, and landscapes &mdash; in her words, "natural people/objects in natural surroundings… environments that are special to them, with minimal posing and no pretense". .

David Balzer wrote in the September 2017 issue of Toronto Life Magazine “what is outside Horton’s scenes seems as important as what is in them; subjects often register an unrepresented disturbance, or gaze longingly away from the viewer”.

Associations and Professional Organizations

 * 2007 Elected to the Ontario Society of Artists
 * 2003 Elected to the Federation of Canadian Artists
 * 2002 Elected to the Society Of Canadian Artists

Select Awards

 * 2006 Honorable Mention, Society of Canadian Artists' 39th Annual Juried Show, Toronto, ON
 * 2006 First Prize, Artworks Oakville 7th Annual Juried Show, Oakville, ON
 * 2006 Mike Randall Family Award, Artworks Oakville 7th Annual Juried Show, Oakville, ON
 * 2003 Best In Show Award, "Water", Etobicoke, Ontario (Society of Canadian Artists)
 * 2003 Silver Medal, Interpretive Illustration, Sheridan College, Oakville, ON

Select Solo Exhibitions

 * 2018 Selected Paintings, The Dime Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
 * 2016 What Dreams May Come, Abbozzo Gallery, Toronto, Ontario
 * 2014 Sea Change: Recent Paintings, North End Gallery, Whitehorse, Yukon Territory
 * 2012 Surfacing: New Paintings, Abbozzo Gallery, Oakville, Ontario
 * 2011 An Aesthetic Voyage, Abbozzo Gallery, Oakville, Ontario
 * 2009 Newfoundland Portraits, Abbozzo Gallery, Oakville, ON
 * 2007 Passages, Abbozzo Gallery, Oakville, ON

Select Group Exhibitions

 * 2019 2019 Twitter Art Exhibit, Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom
 * 2018 Come Back With A Warrant, Seattle, Washington
 * 2017 2017 Twitter Art Exhibit, Stratford-Upon-Avon, England, United Kingdom
 * 2016 Brushes with Cancer, Revel Fulton Market, Chicago, Illinois
 * 2016 Go Figure, Abbozzo Gallery, Toronto, ON
 * 2014 Christmas Underground, Arts Underground, Whitehorse, Yukon Territory
 * 2012 The Trans Canada Highway Through Time, Garden Court, Canadian Currency Museum, Ottawa, ON
 * 2010 International Women’s Day Group Exhibition, Canadian Embassy Official Residence, Ankara, Turkey
 * 2008 Explorations in Realism, Loch Gallery, Calgary, AB
 * 2008 OSA In The GTA, Abbozzo Gallery, Oakville, ON
 * 2007 The Ontario Society Of Artists New Members Exhibition, John B. Aird Gallery, Toronto, ON
 * 2007 White, Abbozzo Gallery, Oakville, ON
 * 2003 CO-OP on Scollard, Yorkville, Toronto, ON

Select Juried Exhibitions

 * 2018 Members Exhibition, Ontario Society of Artists, Todmorden Mills, Toronto, ON
 * 2016 Pandamonium, World Wildlife Fund Canada, Toronto, Ontario
 * 2012 Celebrating 140 Years, The Ontario Society Of Artists, Aurora Cultural Centre, Aurora, Ontario
 * 2008 I-Am-A-Heather Exhibition, Future Tenant Gallery, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
 * 2007 Celebrating The Season, Society of Canadian Artists, Rainbow Market Square Gallery, Toronto, ON
 * 2006 Small, Smaller, Smallest, Miniature Show, Federation of Canadian Artists, Vancouver, British Columbia
 * 2006 39th Annual National Open Juried Exhibition, Society of Canadian Artists
 * 2006 4th Annual International Painting On The Edge Exhibition, Federation Gallery, Vancouver, BC
 * 2005 Art Fusion Traveling Exhibition, Gainsborough Galleries, Calgary, Alberta, and Federation Gallery, Vancouver, British Columbia
 * 2004 2nd Annual International Painting On The Edge Exhibition, Federation Gallery, Vancouver, British Columbia
 * 2004 Federation of Canadian Artists Juried Figurative Exhibition, Federation Gallery, Vancouver, British Columbia
 * 2004 Dimples, Wrinkles, and Folds, Federation of Canadian Artists, Federation Gallery, Vancouver, BC
 * 2003 Society of Canadian Artists Members Juried Exhibition, The Hummingbird Centre For The Performing Arts, Toronto
 * 2003 About Love, Lonsdale Gallery, Toronto, Ontario
 * 2003 Love, 2nd Annual Miniature Exhibition, Lonsdale Gallery, Toronto, ON

Select Publications and Media

 * 2018 Heather Horton : A Painter for Life, Gently Does It Podcast episode 118 with John Dalton
 * 2018 “Top Ten”, Art and Antiques, May 2018
 * 2018 “A Simple Favor”, Art Department, Lionsgate Entertainment
 * 2017 Toronto Life Magazine, Review by David Balzer
 * 2016 “Master Painters of the World”, International Artist Magazine, August/September issue
 * 2015 Author Image for Brief Candle in the Dark (“Portrait of Richard”), Richard Dawkins’, Random House/Penguin UK
 * 2013 "Canadian Artists For The Poor" Calendar, “Gayle, Snowshoeing” Featured
 * 2013 CBC North Radio, Interview with Dave White
 * 2012 Cover Art (“David’s Studio, Sunset”) for “Sonnets From The Labrador”, by Samuel Peralta, Windrift Press
 * 2007 The Artist’s Life (Series 3), TickleScratch Production, Bravo! Canada
 * 2007 Cover Art for “V Cuisine: The Art of New Vegan Cooking”, by Angeline Linardis, Whitecap Books
 * 2006 Ascent Magazine, Timeless Books

Academic Background

 * 2002 Interpretive Illustration, Sheridan College, Oakville, ON
 * 1999 Art Fundamentals Program, Sheridan College (with Honors), Oakville, ON
 * 1997 Bachelor of Arts in English Literature, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON