Heather Foster

San Luis Valley, Original Painting

2020

Artist Comments
"The fall colors of the San Luis Valley in southern Colorado are rich with earth tones," says artist Heather Foster. "One of my favorite road trips takes me through this valley in the southern Rockies with mountains reaching 14000 feet high in the distance. There are often herds of cattle grazing and fields of hay, harvested and rolled, sometimes stacked, and sometimes left in lines across the fields." The fence lines create a geometric linear element in the foreground against the loosely painted mountains in the distance.

About the Artist
Artist Heather Foster captures an enduring image of the West. She paints the dramatic landscapes and stalwart animals she encounters on her adventures to ranches and rodeos. Heather says she has always known she wanted to be an artist. As a child, she spent her weekends and summers riding the bus into Philadelphia to attend art classes at Philadelphia College of Art, Moore College of Art, and the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts. Over the years, she's moved around the country quite a bit and done many jobs - everything from driving a pedicab (a giant tricycle that transports passengers) to art restoration and conservation (for one project, she unstretched and then restretched a $17 million painting that would not fit through the door of the buyer's house). The one constant though, no matter where she lived or what side jobs she held, she always made space and time to paint. Today, she works from a home studio in Santa Fe, painting from thousands of reference photographs she shoots on her travels. Her artwork has been featured in the magazines Southwest Art, American Art Collector, and Western Art Collector, and published in the books Art Journey New Mexico and The Book of the Horse.

Words that describe this painting: landscape, fall, mountains, field, Colorado, western, autumn, clouds, impressionism, landscape, representational, acrylic painting, brown

San Luis Valley
Heather Foster
Acrylic painting on stretched canvas
Finished edges
Ready to hang
One-of-a-kind
Signed on front and back
2020
12 in. h x 24 in. w x 1.5 in. d
2 lbs. 4 oz.