Heather Weston is an abstract painter originally for Leeds, and currently living in London.

Although a relative newcomer to painting, she has widely exhibited as a book artist, having gained an MA for Camberwell College of Arts. Prior to that, she studied Social and Political Science from Cambridge University and subsequently worked in the psychiatry and psychotherapy fields for 10 years. This has profoundly influenced the rationale behind her creative output.

She is drawn to abstraction for its ability to speak the unspoken, and connect directly between the unconscious of painter and viewer - the essence of what we all share, feel, fear, know, were, are, without ‘knowing’, what psychoanalytic thinker, Christopher Bollas, called ‘The Unthought Known’.

Her work combines many thin layers through which the previous lives of the paintings can be glimpsed, echoing ideas of conscious and unconscious experience. Her painting deals with the transformation of the internal emotional landscape. She has been influenced by painters including Gerhard Richter, Richard Whadcock, Lex Cyril, Brian Rutenberg and Adam Taylor, among many others.