Heidi Willis

Online Course Instructor

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Instructor Bio

Heidi Willis ~ RenownedNatural History Artist,Botanical Illustratorand WatercolourPaintingTutor
Australian born, Heidi Willis is an entirely self-taught Natural History watercolour artist. Her work intricately illustrates our native and exotic plants, flowers, fruits and seed capsules, whilst her powerful & distinctive portraits of our spectacular bird life offers viewers an insight into the world as she experiences it. Painting full-time since 2003, Heidi quickly established herself as one of Australias emerging artistic talents. Her reputation as a leading natural history, wildlife and botanical artist is well established and her meticulous and intricate studies of botany and birds can be found in significant public and private collections around the world.
Heidis work has featured in prominent national and international exhibitions over her career. Highlights include The Waterhouse Natural Science Art Prizesixtimes to date. The Waterhouse Natural History Art Prize is one of Australias most prestigious and richest art competitions held by the South Australian Natural History Museum. Several of her works have been showcased as a finalist at the Focus On Nature exhibitions, a leading international Natural History Art Prize held in the New York State Museum.Her work has also featured and won awards in both Botanicaand The Margaret Flockton Award, hosted by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Sydney.
Her work is held in the permanent collection at the Hunt Institute for Botanical DocumentationPA, USA and her work has also been included in the highly regarded Shirley Sherwood Collection.Her work has also been featured in several publications, most significantly Better Homes and Gardens Magazine, Craft Arts Magazine, Colophon, SA Life, International Artist Magazine (front cover), twice inArtist's Palette Magazine (front cover), twice inAustralian Artist Magazine (front cover)and Australian Geographic Magazinemultiple times over, with her work featured on the front cover of Artists Palette issue 123.Most recently, Heidi was taken on by Australian Geographicas a freelance botanical illustrator where her work features in the Nature Watch section of the magazine.
With her work in such demand and her watercolourmasterclasses booked out over a year in advance, she hasturned her focus to online teaching in order to reach and helpmore people pursue andachieve their own watercolour goals.