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Heidi Richardson Evans is a digital and mixed media artist. Her artwork is often bold and includes things that are either natural or anatomical. Her art could be described as comic book-like and “very personal, literal, and transparent.” It is easily understood without being shallow. Heidi Richardson Evans enjoys making art that has a deep meaning to her but still can be understood and appreciated by all.

Early Life
Heidi Richardson Evans grew up in Charleston, West Virginia. She had a passion for art and loved drawing. Growing up, Heidi was always surrounded by much support and love. She attended West Virginia State University and studied under Paula Clendenin, Molly Erlandson, Sabina Haque, and Reidum Ovrebo. There, Heidi took many more hours of art than she needed for her degree because she could never get enough. She especially treasured the mentoring experience that this created with her teachers.

Inspiration/Admiration
There are many different things and people that inspire Heidi Richardson Evans. “Psychology, myth, anthropology, feminism, various religious expressions… my work is conceptual and draws on those ideas,” says Heidi when asked what inspires her to create the amazing works she does. The ideas of Carl Jung are a great interest to her; she loves the concepts of anatomy and scientific diagrams. Her art often includes the human anatomy in some way. Mainly, Heidi draws her inspiration from “places where the physical meets the mystical.”

Current/Future Work
Currently, Heidi Richardson Evans is working on many different things. She enjoys using Photoshop to create and edit her works. After learning how to manipulate or even create art on the computer, Heidi has decided to try something new this spring and work on meta-art. Meta-art, meaning art that refers to the process of art-making or is self-referential, deals with adding a 3-D dimension to drawings and words. She also likes to work on small sketches everyday, as an exercise. In the future she hopes to publish a book, possibly an autobiography, of words and images that interact with the viewer. “The best example of what I’m talking about visually is the author Nick Bantok. He creates these amazing fantasy books that interact with the viewer- you can open an envelope and read a letter by a character in the novel.” She will be showing again in June at the Buswater show on the East End of Charleston.