Painted Portraits of Engagements, Weddings, and Family
Allow me!
Simply stated, this is the proposition: I want to use my talent to capture iconic moments, interesting people, and the ties that bind couples and families. After years of being a traditional artist, I have found the passion for this next phase of my career, and I am excited to work with you. I am not a performance artist who paints at weddings. I am a serious portrait painter, who has decided to use my years of expertise to make real art accessible and enjoyed by a wider audience. I will paint from one of your treasured photos, and create a high-quality painting that is sure to become a beloved family heirloom. My corporate portraits which require several sittings are, frankly, much more of a financial commitment but with my Life:iconic Studio concept, I have collapsed the entire process to provide my clients with a portrait that is unrivaled for the investment.
I am in that phase of life when there are no more dress rehearsals. Like many of my friends who are in their 60’s, I am not in retirement at all. I’ve started this new venture with a focus on capturing joyous moments.
Pleased to Meet You
My life is largely spent on the Connecticut shore, where my husband John and I love to walk our golden on the beautiful, rocky, shoreline.
Pleased to Meet You
We have been restoring a historic home, vintage 1878, since 2008. We moved in in 2012 after moving from Yale, where we were resident fellows. It is a labor of love and sometimes madness!
We are also are avid sailors. Sailing is a pursuit that my husband introduced me to when we met several years ago. We sail our boat from Stonington, CT, and sleep on it most summer weekends. I often joke that sailing is like fancy camping. It is a poetic, rigorous, peaceful, and life-altering endeavor.
Gardening is my other passion, and I view a flower bed as blank palette to “paint” with plants. I love to have my hands in the ground and make something beautiful from nothing but dirt.
I love my family; cooking and dining together is a joy. My daughter, Alex helped me conceive of this idea during the planning of her wedding and continues to use her marketing expertise to contribute. My daughter in law, Lauren, is a publicist, and is also a wonderful advisor.
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While wedding planning, I knew picking out a fantastic photographer was a huge priority for me, enough for me to blow my budget. The photographs from our wedding day would be one of the main physical mementos that we could hang on to, take out to reminisce, or show our future children; but apart from those moments they would remain in a book or as digital files on my computer. This was when my mom, best friend, and maid of honor, Heidi and I came up with the idea of creating a painting based on one of my favorite photos and capturing a special moment of the day that I could publicly hang on my wall to be a constant reminder. By using one of our engagement photographs as an inspiration, she brought Matt and me to life through paint.
---Alexandra and Matthew
Heidi did such an amazing job capturing our wedding day with her painting. We worked together to pick the photograph that would work best as a painting, and she truly delivered. I have had so many people ask me where I got our painting including a professional photographer who was just amazed and how well she captured the photo and the moment. Our painting is hanging up in our living room where we see it every day. It's truly our favorite memento from our wedding!
---Deniz and Mike
I learned about Heidi and her paintings of photographs through a friend of a friend. Countless friends of mine have their wedding photos either stashed somewhere on the cloud, or stuffed in a wedding album that never gets opened. That’s why what Heidi does is so special. She creates a beautiful, one-of-a-kind piece of art that you can display in your home. It won’t be forgotten about like many wedding photos are, and it will always be a great conversation piece with guests! I absolutely adore my wedding painting and look forward to other big milestones in Brian and my life so we can ask Heidi to create another masterpiece!
--Lindsey and Brian
“My husband and I are absolutely in love with our painting! It wasn’t something we initially planned on doing but are very glad that we did. I can’t tell you how many compliments we get from guests, it’s such a beautifully unique piece of art. We would love to work with Heidi again in the future!”
–Dana and Dan