It all started
when…
…despite being an abstract landscape and contemporary abstract painter, I can be very silly. I grew up in New Jersey obsessively building Lego and Erector set projects, but Tinker Toys were too boring for me. I moved onto old school pen and ink perspectives in architecture school. While I was learning fine art line drawing, my undergraduate teacher asked if I wanted to attend an architecture school program in Manhattan. I did, and got my master’s degree in Denver. I lived there three decades. My aerospace engineer husband brought us to Seattle in 2018.
You wouldn’t know my entire life I’ve been learning not to doubt myself. As I sat next to a painting during a brunch out at Cafe Terra Cotta in Littleton, Colorado, one day in 2013, I said, ” I can do that ! ” I took an acrylic painting course, continued teaching myself, and within a few months, I was asked if “Jesen Shizzle” was for sale. My web sales continued while I continued raising my family, then directly in person from artist to collector. It’s done nothing but grow since. This is my new season of life, as once was the architecture license I gifted myself. I’m not a “should have, could have, would have” kind of person. I always make it happen come… high water.
Here I am. I’ve exhibited in solo and group exhibits throughout Washington state and Colorado. My work is found with private clients throughout the United States, U.K., Germany and New Zealand. I keep my Studio 211 on 1120 Pacific Avenue in Tacoma. I graduated with a B. of Architectural Studies and a Minor in Fine Arts from Skidmore College in conjunction with The Institute for Architecture and Urban Studies in New York City. After my Masters of Architecture Degree from U. of Colorado in Denver, I practiced architecture in high end residential, medical and retail projects to $12M for about 25 years.
EXHIBITS | SOLO
PERMANENT ROTATING EXHIBIT
WorkSphere Tacoma
1120 Pacific Ave., Floor One, Tacoma, WA
January - Current
SPARK | Work by Heather W. Ernst
WorkSphere Tacoma
1120 Pacific Ave., Floor One, Tacoma, WA
November 14 - December 15, 2020
ENERGY and ABSTRACTION | Paintings by Heather W. Ernst
Covington Town Hall Gallery
16720 SE 271st St, Covington, WA 98042
June 3 - June 26, 2019
SPIRIT | Heather W. Ernst
Mary Boze Gallery | Tahoma Universalist Church
1115 S 56th St, Tacoma, WA 98408
March 3 - April 30, 2019
LAST STANZA | Heather W. Ernst
The Infinite Monkey Theorem
3200 Larimer Street | RiNo Art District Denver USA
May 1 – 31, 2018
GRANDE AUTUMN SHIZZLE | Heather W. Ernst at West + Main
2632 Blake Street | RiNo Art District Denver USA
April 4 – 30, 2018
ROX ARTS | Heather W. Ernst
Angel's Share Wine Pub
Littleton | Colorado | USA
April 9, 2017 - May 21, 2017
Nov. 1, 2014 - Dec. 11, 2014
PERMANENT ROTATING EXHIBIT
Riggs-Abney Law | 50 S. Steele Street Cherry Creek | Colorado | USA
April 27, 2015 – March 30, 2018
DISCOVER LOCAL ARTIST HEATHER W. ERNST
Roxborough Public Library
Littleton | Colorado | USA
July 1, 2014 - July 31, 2014
EVENTS
TACOMA STUDIO TOUR
SpaceWorks 1120 Downtown
1120 Pacific Ave., Tacoma WA
October 12-13, 2019
HOTEL MURANO | Art + Wine Night
February 21, 2019
TACOMA ART WALK | 3rd Thursday
1320 Broadway, Tacoma, WA 98402
January 17, 2019
GALA FANTASTIQUE! | Symphony Tacoma Auction
Museum of Glass | 1801 Dock Street, Tacoma WA 98402
January 5, 2019
FIRST FRIDAY Open Studios | ARTWORK NETWORK
878 Santa Fe Drive Santa Fe Drive Art District | Denver | USA
Nov. 2017 to May 2018
EXHIBITS | GROUP
ARTIST IN FOCUS | TACOMA ARTS MONTH
Work by Heather W. Ernst ~ Virtually
Tacoma Office of Arts & Cultural Vitality
October 20-31, 2020
PRECISION and VERVE | Heather W. Ernst + Hoyt Crace
Spaceworks 1120 Downtown
1120 Pacific Ave., Tacoma WA 98402
August 15, 2019
SOUND & COLOR | Works Inspired by Kandisky
Cottonwood Center for the Arts | Colorado Springs | CO | USA
Oct. 6, 2017 - Oct. 31, 2017
OUTNUMBERED GALLERY Hosts FIRST FRIDAY ARTS | Historic I. W. Hunt Bldg.
2309 W Main St. | Littleton | Colorado
August 3, 2017
DENVER FIRST FRIDAY at PRISM | Denver
June 2, 2017 - Nov. 3, 2017
Nov. 4, 2016 - Feb. 28, 2016
June 3, 2015 - Sept. 30, 2015
Nov. 6, 2014 - March 31, 2015
DENVER ART WEEK at PRISM | Denver
June 5, 2015 - Sept. 30, 2015