Heidi Jayne Best/ Spring Issue

Heidi Jayne Best is an artist and poet living and working in Derbyshire. Her practice evolves from personal experience dealing with female identity, sexuality and the presence of the body. Merging her roots of abstract expressionism with contemporary figurative painting. Her work is autobiographical in nature, It is a performative practice, mirror like, where she is dancing with herself through composition and critical reflection as the image comes into fruition, she is revealing through the action of painting her conscious thoughts and intentions. The dynamics between the materials and a physical projection where nature and self are revealed and expressed. These aspects Influence and inspire the work, immersing in the connection between nature, birth, female selfhood and a deeply corporeal relationship with painting and the creative act.