{"id":47233,"date":"2021-12-29T22:15:32","date_gmt":"2021-12-30T03:15:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/?p=47233"},"modified":"2021-12-29T22:27:36","modified_gmt":"2021-12-30T03:27:36","slug":"cover-artist-heather-davis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/arts\/cover-artist-heather-davis\/","title":{"rendered":"Cover Artist: Heather Davis"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_47236\" style=\"width: 1210px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-47236\" class=\"size-full wp-image-47236\" src=\"https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Cover-Artist-New1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"890\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-47236\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The French Broad in Asheville. Heather Davis, artist<\/p><\/div>\n<p>By Gina Malone<\/p>\n<p>Artists in all fields are often asked why they do what they do. Painter Heather Davis minces no words when she explains her own proclivity to create. \u201cIf I didn\u2019t try to give birth to these images in my mind,\u201d she says, \u201cI would probably need to be institutionalized.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Art was a natural direction for her, coming from an artistic family. \u201cSeveral of us are professional artists,\u201d she says. \u201cMy mother was a recognized quilter whose work is in the permanent collections of museums in the US and abroad. My cousins, Tom and Dianne Starr, have been husband-and-wife potters since they graduated from college in the \u201870s. Starr Pottery in Hanover, PA has been a guiding light for me.\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_47238\" style=\"width: 410px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-47238\" class=\"wp-image-47238\" src=\"https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Cover-Artist_-Heather-Davis-Encaustic-collagraph-copy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"511\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Cover-Artist_-Heather-Davis-Encaustic-collagraph-copy.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Cover-Artist_-Heather-Davis-Encaustic-collagraph-copy-235x300.jpg 235w, https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Cover-Artist_-Heather-Davis-Encaustic-collagraph-copy-802x1024.jpg 802w, https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Cover-Artist_-Heather-Davis-Encaustic-collagraph-copy-768x980.jpg 768w, https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Cover-Artist_-Heather-Davis-Encaustic-collagraph-copy-810x1034.jpg 810w, https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Cover-Artist_-Heather-Davis-Encaustic-collagraph-copy-1140x1455.jpg 1140w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-47238\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Encaustic collagraph. Heather Davis, artist<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Davis\u2019 father was a professor of Economics at Cornell University, and, though she says it was more of a stretch than art, she built a career around corporate finance and investment management. When 9\/11 shook the world at large and the financial world in particular, the asset management and insurance company for which she worked as an institutional investor wanted to develop an investment management presence outside of New York in case there was another attack. \u201cI volunteered to come, and I was actually the first investment management person on the ground in Charlotte,\u201d says Davis. \u201cWe built the trading desk and the investment function in Charlotte and, over time, it grew to be the largest investment management area in the company. All along, I was pursuing my art practice: taking classes and working nights and weekends.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Davis paints in cold wax and oil, but mainly in encaustics, or hot wax painting, an ancient practice using pigments and an organic blend of beeswax and damar tree resin. She often collages elements into her work including vintage architectural plans and specs, old maps and newspaper clippings, with \u201ccrumbling infrastructure\u201d being a favorite theme. \u201cThe durability and archival quality of the encaustic, together with its hazy translucency, help me to tell my tales of architecture, infrastructure and time,\u201d she states on her website. \u201cHaving spent a 30-year career as a professional investor in infrastructure and commercial real estate, I am steeped in admiration for these complex creations. I wonder about how they will stand the passage of time and evolve to meet the needs of our future generations.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Her encaustic collagraphs are made using encaustic medium as a print matrix into which she uses a variety of found objects to create surface patterns. After an intaglio printing process, she uses the finished print as the underpainting for the piece which can be either a cold wax and oil or an encaustic painting.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_47237\" style=\"width: 1210px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-47237\" class=\"size-full wp-image-47237\" src=\"https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Cover-Artist_-Heather-Davis-2Up.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"472\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Cover-Artist_-Heather-Davis-2Up.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Cover-Artist_-Heather-Davis-2Up-300x118.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Cover-Artist_-Heather-Davis-2Up-1024x403.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Cover-Artist_-Heather-Davis-2Up-768x302.jpg 768w, https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Cover-Artist_-Heather-Davis-2Up-810x319.jpg 810w, https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Cover-Artist_-Heather-Davis-2Up-1140x448.jpg 1140w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-47237\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Vintage Plans 2 (left) and Vintage Plans 4 (right). Heather Davis, artist<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Her <em>Pompeii<\/em> series features encaustic paintings based on her observations from trips to Pompeii. \u201cEach painting is on birch panel upon which I first mounted a photograph that I took there,\u201d says Davis. \u201cLayers and layers of encaustic paint and medium are on top of the photo, and then I carved into the wax and used oil paint in the incisions.\u201d She also has a <em>Vintage Plans<\/em> series using vintage architectural plans.<\/p>\n<p>Planning new pieces begins in her head, Davis says. She describes it as being \u201chaunted by the imagery of my unborn artwork,\u201d and says, \u201cI am consciously and subconsciously trying to give birth to it. It haunts me until I can get it out of my head and onto a panel or paper.\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_47239\" style=\"width: 410px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-47239\" class=\"wp-image-47239\" src=\"https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Cover-Artist_-Heather-Davis_5-Encaustic-collagraph-copy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"262\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Cover-Artist_-Heather-Davis_5-Encaustic-collagraph-copy.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Cover-Artist_-Heather-Davis_5-Encaustic-collagraph-copy-300x196.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Cover-Artist_-Heather-Davis_5-Encaustic-collagraph-copy-1024x670.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Cover-Artist_-Heather-Davis_5-Encaustic-collagraph-copy-768x502.jpg 768w, https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Cover-Artist_-Heather-Davis_5-Encaustic-collagraph-copy-810x530.jpg 810w, https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Cover-Artist_-Heather-Davis_5-Encaustic-collagraph-copy-1140x746.jpg 1140w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-47239\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Encaustic collagraph. Heather Davis, artist<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Working in the investment world was a fun career, says Davis, but working at her art is the most fun she\u2019s ever had. Throughout the pandemic, she and her husband have been living on 60 acres in eastern Tennessee, raising cattle and goats and enjoying the sight of ponds with koi and exotic ducks. \u201cIt has been the perfect refuge,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n<p>She recently purchased three connected buildings in downtown Asheville where she plans to pay homage to Andy Warhol with her own space called The Factory. \u201cWe will have artist studios and a gallery where we will sell local and regional artwork,\u201d says Davis.<\/p>\n<p><em>Heather Davis Studio + Gallery is located at Pink Dog Creative, Studio 102, in Asheville\u2019s River Arts District. To learn more, visit <a href=\"http:\/\/HeatherDavis.studio\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">HeatherDavis.studio<\/a> or <a href=\"http:\/\/HeatherDavis.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">HeatherDavis.com<\/a> on the web, or find her on Facebook and Instagram. Her work is available at her studio and at Marquee.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Artists in all fields are often asked why they do what they do. Painter Heather Davis minces no words when she explains her own proclivity to create. \u201cIf I didn\u2019t try to give birth to these images in my mind,\u201d she says, \u201cI would probably need to be institutionalized.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":47236,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47,104],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47233","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-arts","category-galleries"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Cover Artist: Heather Davis - The Laurel of Asheville<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Artists in all fields are often asked why they do what they do. 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