Jeff Heene
Painting
Born in 1974 in Hamilton Ontario, I moved to London in my early teens. I was encouraged by my mother as a young person to draw and make art. Following high school, I attended Bealart and gained my undergrad from NSCAD in 1999. My current work is an exploration of colour, mark-making, and the relationship between figure and ground. Influenced by a sense of play and my experiences as an art educator at Bealart, I experiment with the elements of form and space. Compositions are driven by the interplay of colour and texture, where marks serve as both a gesture and an invitation to discover the unexpected.