Welcome to the online gallery of:Heidi Hayes
Welcome to Gray Matter Imagery—the exploration of art, mind, and metamorphosis through the artwork of pop surrealist painter Heidi Hayes. Her works have been featured in group and solo exhibitions along the East Coast and have been sold to private collections in the United States and in Europe.
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Artist Statement
My first bicycle was converted into a racing equine spaceship of sorts. At my request, my father replaced the handlebars with an old junkyard car steering wheel. I draped a fuzzy blue toilet seat cover over the bike’s seat that became a horse saddle. At the back tire I fastened thick pieces of cardboard with clothespins to the bike frame. The cardboard clicked and hummed against the tire spokes like a racing motorcycle. When I rode I wore a white toy NASA space helmet ordered from a thick toy filled Sears Christmas catalogue. The helmet had spiraled antennae at both ears and I imagined having secret conversations with outer space. There was no distinction between worldly and other worldly, animal and machine, the natural and the technological. And I didn’t have to choose. I could be racecar driver, cowboy, moon walker, and Evel Knievel simultaneously or interchangeably. These childhood transformations and metaphorical thought processes continue to be the basis of my artistic works. continued...
Hayes has studied fine art in Cortona, Italy, and at the Rhode Island School of Design. In addition, she received a B.F.A. from Moore College of Art & Design in Philadelphia and a M.S. in clinical art psychotherapy from Eastern Virginia Medical School in Norfolk, Virginia.
Along with creating fine art, Heidi Hayes also does commission work for private homes and businesses such as: illustrations for book, CD, and DVD covers, and movie backdrops and set backgrounds. Heidi's incredible paintings can be viewed in her Online Gallery. Many of these works are available as Free Ecards from this site.
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