Artist, Author & Furniture Designer
I’m Wendy. An artist, author, and furniture designer, with a deep love for creating work that feels alive with colour, texture, and stories. My work spans mixed media, from drawing and painting to sculpture and upcycled furniture, always guided by a belief that beauty can be found, and made, from almost anything.
For as long as I can remember, “paint” and “reuse” have been part of who I am. Some of my earliest memories are of making doll’s clothes from my grandmothers fabric scraps on her old Singer sewing machine, painting on newspaper, and piecing together tiny worlds from paper, wood, and whatever I could find. Those early moments gave me a foundation not just in art, but in expression, and a lifelong sense of creative freedom.
That feeling never left me. I followed it into a career where I work intuitively, often using broken or discarded materials, allowing each piece to evolve in its own way. Alongside my visual work, I’ve also written a novel born from my imagination. A time travel story that explores memory, choice, and the quiet threads that connect a life across decades. In both my art and my writing, I’m drawn to the stories we carry, of places, of people, of transformation.
My furniture pieces are part of that same narrative: a gentle reminder that what we often throw away can still hold beauty, history, and purpose. When you look at my work, you’ll see traces of the journeys I’ve taken and the places that have shaped me. The vibrant markets of India, the crystal-clear coves of Spain, the deep greens of Scandinavian forests. These influences continue to live and shift within everything I create.
Today, I feel incredibly grateful to be living the life I once dreamed of, surrounded by nature in the Swedish forest, where the changing seasons bring constant inspiration. Having grown up without the opportunity to travel or be immersed in nature, I now embrace every chance to explore, gather, and fall in love with the world around me.
Over the years, my work has found its way a little further than I imagined. Pieces have been featured in calendars, magazines, and blogs around the world. Something I still find both surprising and deeply humbling. It’s always a strange and yet lovely feeling to know that something created in a small corner of my studio can travel so far, and connect with people I may never meet.
Even in a world that can feel uncertain, I return to my canvas, my writing, or my sewing machine with a quiet, steady optimism. The same resilience that carried me through darker times and into the light. If there’s one thing I’ve come to believe, it’s that life itself can become art, if we choose to see it that way.
With gratitude ❤️
Wendy Marie Heather