Reflecting God’s light and beauty through art
I named my company “Works for Light”, as my goal is to show God’s light and beauty to others. So not only are my works created to bring light into the world, but I also am an artist that “works for light”.
God has given me so much in my life, that I try, to the best of my ability, to do God’s will, especially with the gifts and talents he has given me.
I see a lot of darkness in our world. With my art I would like to bring joy, peace and with some of my works a bit of laughter.
I do feel that art is very powerful. The presence of an uplifting work of art of can shape someone’s day or life and comfort a heart that is discouraged.
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Heather Szczepiorkowski (Shep-or-kof-ski) is a New Hampshire-based, self taught sculptor who focuses on capturing the uniqueness and the spark of her models. Her works range from the determination of a young man’s pensive gaze to the delicate grace of a lily to the playfulness of a sea otter. Heather began her life as an artists through a childhood chore. Growing up the youngest of 5 children, her first chore was setting the table with paper napkins. Heather turned this task into an artistic endeavor by manipulating each napkin into a unique sculpture for each member of her family.
Heather rediscovered her love of sculpting while taking a class on portraiture in clay. Ironically, Heather signed up for the sculpting class to refine her paintings and drawings. Although she attended the class to hone these skills, as soon as she began to sculpt, she left like she had come “home”.
Her current medium is typically oil-based clay. It’s flexible nature allows her to capture the individuality of every model she sculpts. Heather has exhibited nationally at the Salmagundi Club on 5th Avenue in New York City. On the cape, at the Cape Cod Museum of Art Museum, where she won the People’s Choice Award for “Play Ball!”. In Scottsdale, Arizona at the Best and Brightest Show where she won a sculpting medal for her “Easter Lily Trinity”.
Heather has been mentored by the well-known sculptors Carter Jones of New York City and Jeff Briggs of Newburyport, Massachusetts. Carter Jones taught Heather how to create medallions, using his own sculpture of an angel as the model. With Jeff Briggs, Heather incorporated a relief of the Three Sisters (corn, beans and squash) into one of Jeff Brigg’s sculpture “Survivance” part of the permanent collection of Newburyport’s Custom House Museum.
She is currently a member of the National Sculpture Society, the New England Sculptor’s Association and the American Medallic Sculpture Association, where her work “Floaters” was featured in the Association’s poster.