Heather Burton is in constant awe of the beauty of our world and those living in it. Connecting to nature and capturing the moments that inspire her are what she strives to share in her paintings. Whether her current piece is a landscape, still life, figure or animal, she wants to express the emotional response stirred in her and hopefully evoke a personal response in the viewer.

Heather attended Syracuse University for design and after graduation became a web designer and developer. In 2006 she decided to go back to school for her master's in Painting and Illustration at the Academy of Art University in San Francisco. Since graduating in 2010 she has been teaching art and painting full time. In graduate school, she combined her love of painting with her love of horses and started focusing on painting horses in motion. Heather began painting thoroughbreds at Saratoga and upon moving to Maui, transitioned to painting polo ponies. Meeting her husband, a fantastic Colorado artist in 2014, Heather and her son moved to Colorado in 2015 and is excited to be living where beautiful landscapes, horses, and wildlife are abundant sources of inspiration. Her two beautiful children are also a constant source of inspiration.