About

Contact : claraheatonart@gmail.com or send me a message on instagram, claraheaton_art !

I began working daily with flowers as a floral designer in Roanoke, SWVA and experientially learned the trade of floristry. Continuing my education in florals I worked the land as a farmer-florist during the harvesting seasons of 2023 at Bee’s Wing Farm. Working for a multitude of shops, farms, and design centers I have the view of floristry as a lucrative fine art and continue to learn the expressive qualities of nature. Paying more attention to flowers has greatly improved my life in many forms.

At the root, my creative work has been generated by a lifelong instinct to draw, to express my thoughts with my observations into color and let my hands take the direction to produce my mark; my artwork (#CHart). My undergraduate study and practices of what fine art is and how to artfully interpret my understanding of big picture creation processes and to recognize value. I feel value before I know the words to give it description. My intuitive senses with my education and experiences serve as guides to my work and provide my mind with abstract maps of inspiration. I give nature space to move my actions and relationships forward and pay attention to the innocence of excitement and the logic of giving my time and living space to grow between mediums and moments of career changes.

I want to create a professional design business to share what I know about art curation and workforce relationships to produce successful navigation of conceptual and material processes that communicate beyond words and connect people to themselves through their value of others intentional work.

Clara