Heather Gwen Martin
Suite of Six
From the artist, discussing one of the six prints
“Weft hits with this frenetic energy and raucous color, but there is a sensitivity and a serenity in how the forms fall. It shifts from fast to slow.”
About the Artwork
These prints are Heather Gwen Martin’s first foray into printmaking. We at Haystack were thrilled when she agreed to do her very first prints with us. She traveled to Asheville, North Carolina, to create these works in the PS Marlowe Studio with Master Printer Phil Sanders.
Haystack Perspective
Heather Gwen Martin’s large, bold, colorful abstract paintings suggest sweeping landscapes in a pop aesthetic. Hers is a bright and beautiful world full of organically curving shapes and lines. Bulbous forms swell; lines move like tendrils or hairline cracks across expanses of color. Scale is an essential component of her paintings, where compositions are consistently asymmetrical and askew. Interested in neuroscience, Martin is fascinated by our interactions with the world, how we respond to stimuli, both cognitively and physically. Her paintings (and now her prints) are fascinating examples of two-dimensional works that evoke a sense of depth and vibrate at the points where intense colors meet. The artist’s explanations are brief to give the viewer full license to interpret the abstraction with their mind unencumbered.
About the Artist
Heather Gwen Martin (b.1977, Saskatoon, Canada) is a painter based in Los Angeles who is interested in the human aspect of painting. The colors are hot and bright, nearing hard edge abstraction while maintaining the mark of the hand. Each shape is poetic, with flourishes of elegant movement akin to dancing.
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