Heidi Harner

Lafayette, Indiana

Artist's Statement

Having a life-long interest in drawing, Heidi Harner began studying watercolor painting while living in Colorado as a young woman. Since then her medium of choice is oil paints, doing both plein air and studio painting. Subjects of interest include God’s inspiring creation: horses, dogs, farm animals, and landscapes. Her appreciation and concern for animals was modeled to her by her mother, who helped launch a local Humane Society when they were living in Minot, North Dakota in the early 1980's. Her roots in the Great Plains of North Dakota have inspired her love of the land and for the horses who live there. She is fortunate to have become friends with the people at the Nokota Horse Conservancy, located in south central North Dakota on hundreds of acres of untouched native prairie. Heidi visits the conservancy for frequent photo opportunities and to learn as much as she can about the horses.

Heidi is an associate member of WAOW (Women Artists of the West). She is a member of the CCA Gallery in Zionsville, Indiana, and the online western art gallery, Dakota Rocks. A BFA from Purdue University and her experiences as a professional art conservation framer have helped refine Heidi’s natural abilities as an artist.

Heidi is published in the Fall 2006 and Spring 2007 edition of Horses in Art Magazine. She is also one of the women featured in GaWaNi Pony Boy’s book, “Of Women and Horses: More Reflections of the Magical Bond,” published by Bowtie Press, 2005, and she is featured in the Creatures Comforts column in Mary Engelbreit’s Home Companion Magazine Christmas 2003 edition.

She resides in Lafayette, Indiana with her husband, Brad, his daughter, Cassie, and two amusing dogs named Joey and Lucy.