Meet the Artist
Get to know Canadian abstract expressionist artist, Alyssa Heather
Abstract Expressionist Artist
Alyssa Heather
Alyssa Heather is a multidisciplinary creative whose artistic practice lives at the intersection of movement, music, and colour.
Painting exclusively to live recordings of the Grateful Dead, she channels rhythm to guide gesture, spin, and saturation. Each brushstroke becomes a response. Each layer, a conversation between energy and intuition.
Her paintings are immersive and untamed. Colours collide, melt, bloom, and vibrate, often evoking dreamlike landscapes, psychedelic botanicals, and moments of luminous abstraction. There is freedom in her process, but also intention: a desire to capture feeling before it fades.
Through Alyssa Heather Studios, she invites collectors into a world where colour is alive, motion is visible, and creativity is a form of presence.
The studio journal
What the Grateful Dead Taught Me About Painting Part 1 I discovered the Grateful Dead when I was twelve or thirteen years old. It may sound excessive, but I honestly don’t think I would be the same person today had I not stumbled across their music. Their influence reaches far beyond my playlists, they’ve […]