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.
Art inspired by everything botanical.
Her practice involves the humble capture of moments in time for botanicals. By investigating living color in myriad forms, the wellness benefits, awe, and lessons found in nature encourages re/connection to an inherent evolutionary relationship between people and the plant world.
Intimately witnessing the inevitable, constant changes of plants and their flowers informs Heather’s time-intensive process. The work is created with patience, nurturing, repetition, discovery, experimentation, 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 is a catalyst for curiosity, 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
