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Heather Thayer was raised on a 200-year-old farm in Chester County Pennsylvania between Amish country and a dying steel town. She is the daughter of a scientist and an artist turned breeder of racehorses.
The connections and contrasts of her early surroundings fostered a growing interest in man's relationship with the rest of the natural world. In the simplest sense, Thayer's oil paintings are the product of this continuing exploration. In them, common scenes and ordinary objects become symbol and allegory.
She earned her bachelor's degree in fine arts from the University of Pennsylvania in 1999, and studied at the International School of Art in Umbria, Italy. It was there, within the altarpieces of Rome, Florence, Siena and Padua, that Thayer found the religious seeds of her current work.
Heather Thayer's exploration continues today in her third floor studio, overlooking downtown Bar Harbor, on Maine's Mount Desert Island. Where the short, quiet days and the stark light of winter have informed her two most recent series: "Road kill, Religion and A Walk In The Park" 2006 and "Post and Pile" 2007, both shown at Samuel Shaw's Gallery in North East Harbor, Maine. Thayer's work has also been featured in the Wingspread gallery of North East Harbor, the Penobscot Marine Museum in Searsport, Maine, and at Leapin Lizard Gallery now located in Covington, Kentucky. Her work is in private and corporate collections in the United States and Europe.
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