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Heidi Lowell

Heidi Lowell


Heidi Lowell is an Austin-based multidisciplinary artist who crafts natural pigments from site-specific Texas soils and plant materials. By using the earth as both medium and muse, she creates a visceral connection between the viewer and the landscape. An autodidact raised in the Rocky Mountains, Lowell balances classical structure with intuitive spontaneity, producing contemporary landscape art that mirrors the organic duality of the natural world.

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Lowell’s studio practice is shaped by contemplative ritual. An avid reader, she draws steady inspiration from literature, alongside her ongoing studies in biology, gardening, and music. Her paintings often hold penciled notations—fragments of text or melody—layered into the surface like quiet echoes. These details, subtle yet intentional, lend her work a narrative richness that rewards close looking.

Her work has been exhibited at institutions including the Yellowstone Art Museum and the Old West Museum. Among her many accomplishments, she takes particular pride in her watercolor illustrations created for the University of Texas, which were selected as cover art by the Journal of BioPhysics. Lowell’s practice honors the serene and the unruly, the structured and the spontaneous—offering a meditative space where the complexities of the natural world reflect those within ourselves.

Lowell’s studio practice is shaped by contemplative ritual. An avid reader, she draws steady inspiration from literature, alongside her ongoing studies in biology, gardening, and music. Her paintings often hold penciled notations—fragments of text or melody—layered into the surface like quiet echoes. These details, subtle yet intentional, lend her work a narrative richness that rewards close looking.

Her work has been exhibited at institutions including the Yellowstone Art Museum and the Old West Museum. Among her many accomplishments, she takes particular pride in her watercolor illustrations created for the University of Texas, which were selected as cover art by the Journal of BioPhysics. Lowell’s practice honors the serene and the unruly, the structured and the spontaneous—offering a meditative space where the complexities of the natural world reflect those within ourselves.

EXHIBITIONS

2026
  • Solo Exhibition, ‘The Land We Love’ – Georgetown Art Center, Georgetown, TX
2025
  • Solo Exhibition, ‘Dust to Dust’ – Buttridge Gallery, Austin, TX
2024
  • ’Small Works’ – Art Center Waco, Waco, TX
  • ’Red Dot Spree’ – Women & Their Work Gallery, Austin, TX
  • ’SMOL’ – Highland Gallery, Austin, TX
  • ’Converge’ – Bridgette Mayer Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
  • ’Upcycled’ – Ardest Gallery, Houston, TX
  • ’Transmissions: EcoArtists’ – Austin, TX
  • ’Big Art Show’ – Vaughn Gallery, Austin, TX
2023
  • ‘Color: Story’ – The Silos at Sawyer Yards, Houston, TX
  • ’People’s Gallery’ – City Hall, Austin, TX
  • ’Sound & Vision’ – ArtUs Co., Austin, TX
2022
  • ’ArtHop’ – Georgetown Art Center, Georgetown, TX
  • ’All in the Family’ – Lockhart Art House, Lockhart, TX
  • ’54’ – Yellowstone Art Museum, Billings, MT
  • ’The Spirit of the West’ – Old West Frontier Museum, Cheyenne, WY
  • ’The Really Small Museum’ – Austin, TX
2021
  • ‘Color: Story’ – Spring Street Studios, Houston, TX
  • ’Red Dot Spree’ – Women & Their Work Gallery, Austin, TX
  • ’Texas Now Online’ – Artspace 111, Dallas, TX
2020
  • ’Cover Story’ – Women & Their Work Gallery, Austin, TX
  • ’Red Dot Show’ – Women & Their Work Gallery, Austin, TX

ART FAIRS

2025
  • The Affordable Art Fair, Austin, Texas
2021
  • The Other Art Fair, Dallas, Texas

AWARDS

2024
  • Honorable Mention, Upcycled, Ardest Gallery
  • Editor’s Choice, Minted
2022
  • Georgetown Art Center Art Hop, Best in Show Abstracts, Honorable Mention
2019
  • Cover Art of the Year, BioPhysics Journal
2016
  • West Elm & Minted, Art on the Big Stage

PUBLICATIONS & FEATURES

2025
  • Soils Turn, printed EcoArtists book
2024
  • The Good Dirt Podcast
  • Insights of An EcoArtist, Online Feature, Fall 2024
2017 – 2024
  • Big Medium Studio Tour Catalog
2022
  • Eco Art Collection, Saatchi Art
  • KVUE
2018
  • Local Treasures, Time Warner Cable
2017
  • Six Picks From the East Beast, Austin Chronicle
Undated
  • Glasstire, The World’s Biggest – Smallest Art Salon