Meet the Instructor: Willow Heath

Willow Heath is a watercolor artist, illustrator, storyteller, and art instructor.  Willow has been exhibiting her paintings in galleries and museums since 1996 and has been instructing art courses throughout the Seattle area since 2000.
Willow lives in Seattle where she instructs painting courses to adults and children, paints galaxies, watercolor portraits, and the occasional galaxy watercolor portrait.  When she does not have her paint to the paper or her nose in a book, you can find Willow instructing courses at Gage Academy of Art, Pratt Fine Art, Coyote Central, and many other Seattle schools and museums.

Teaching Statement: As an artist I create my paintings from personal inspirations, and as a teacher I guide my students through the building blocks to reflect their own inspirations. I believe it is important to enjoy the process of art as much as the outcome. With this in mind I design curricula that reflect both the inspirational and the technical qualities within the creative process.  Through teaching art I have developed a greater understanding of my own process and am able to provide my students with a solid foundation to express their artistic visions.  All that aside, my teaching style is really relaxed and full of humor, storytelling, questions, and guided narration while channeling my inner Bob Ross.