Inspired by everything plants.
Heather Crosby’s work is a celebration of gardening, nature, and the beauty of the ephemeral.
Made with homegrown botanicals and their pigments, Heather finds inspiration in the truth and mystery of biophilia, floriography, and the ongoing bond with her garden throughout the seasons.
Heather’s practice involves the humble capture of botanical moments in time. By investigating living color in myriad forms, the wellness benefits, awe, and lessons found in nature encourages re/connection to an inherent, evolutionary relationship with the plant world.
Bearing witness to the inevitable and constant changes of botanicals is intimate, and informs Heather’s time-intensive process. The work is created with patience, discovery, practicing, intuition, adjusting, waiting, and waiting some more. Many pieces take an entire growth cycle—at least one year—to complete.
From seed to harvest to preservation, Heather’s practice honors and mirrors nature’s flow, reconciling what it means to be a human being within it.
Whether the work is organically shaped vessels, soft sculpture, painting, weaving, pressed flower preservation, or botanically dyed textiles, Heather’s garden provides an endless source of inspiration, resources, and important reminders about who/where we innately are in the greater cycle of life.
New pieces coming 2027.
Tending to the plant materials, preparation, and preservation of materials is ongoing through summer 2026.
Take a peek of the process here.
Garden 2024, Sold
Cosmos, indigo, madder root, myrobalan, goldenrod
Nature is ever-changing, yet the smallest moment can leave an impact on a person for a lifetime.
Every professional effort to protect your investment is taken using pH neutral adhesives, archival papers, and preservation techniques, yet as she does, Mother Nature will remind us who is the real boss over a long period of time.
Living color: any subtle color shifts, variation in appearance, or imperfection in the work over the years is entirely the point.
