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Featured Artist for the Mill Valley First Tuesday Art Walk: ILLUMINATION Join us at one of our three reception dates:

Tuesday August 6th/Tuesday September 3rd/ Tuesday October 1st @5:30-7:30pm, 39 Forrest St. Mill Valley.

Artist Bio

Heather McFarlin is an avid colorist with a flair for surrealism and mystical storytelling. Her abstract paintings convey a sense of hypnotic vastness, while also capturing whimsical and intricate dreamscapes. Constantly inspired by shifting colors and light, as well as the subconscious mind, and personal experiences, she uses painting as a means to explore and understand higher states of consciousness through intuition and sensation. Heather paints in a converted greenhouse, in a small artist cooperative in Marin County,  With over two decades of experience as a healing arts practitioner and teacher, she is grateful for the enriching fusion of the healing arts and fine art.

Exhibitions & Shows

  • 2023

    • MMCLAY Studios Solo show, San Francisco, CA
    • Featured in a Collection: ‘Our Most Beautiful Abstract Landscapes’ | Singulart online international exhibition
  • 2022

    • Voices of Tomorrow’ Award by Contemporary Art Curator Magazine
    • VOGUE UK: Featured Gallery Artist | March & April
    • Published in The Power of Creativity by Contemporary Art Curator
    • Art Market & Open Studios / Mill Valley
  • 2020/2021

    • Juried Group Exhibit, Artworks Downtown ‘Small Works’ | San Rafael
    • Interview for Contemporary Art Curator
    • Art Market & Salon | Mill Valley
    • Juried international online exhibition ‘Infinite Dreams’ | Contemporary Art Curator
  • 2019

    • Artist featured by Saatchi Art in a collection
    • Contest Winner/Featured in Circle Quarterly Art Review Magazine | International | Summer 2020
    • Pixar Animation Studios / Emeryville
    • StARTup Art Fair / San Francisco
    • Marin Open Studios / Mill Valley
    • Magnolia Wellness / San Francisco
    • Spaulding Marine Center / Sausalito
    • Marin Regenerative Health / Novato
  • 2018

    • Artworks Downtown Solo Exhibit: The Bigger PictureSan Rafael
    • Inside Artists Magazine / UK & international
    • West Elm / Mill Valley
    • Artworks Downtown: Juried | Storytelling Group Exhibit / San Rafael
    • Marin Open Studios / Mill Valley
    • SHIFT Cycling / San Francisco
  • 2017

    • SENSE8 Netflix Season 2
    • SHIFT Cycling / San Francisco
    • Art Attack / San Francisco
    • Salon Nine / San Francisco
    • Open Studios / Marin
  • 2016

    • Alegris, Inc. / Palo Alto
    • SHIFT Cycling / San Francisco
    • Art Attack / San Francisco
    • Equator Coffee / Mill Valley Art Walk
  • 2015

    • EQ3 / San Francisco
    • Art Attack / San Francisco
    • SHIFT Cycling / San Francisco
    • Phoenix Hotel / San Francisco
    • Hard Rock Cafe / San Francisco
  • 2014

    • SHIFT Cycling / San Francisco
    • Art Attack / San Francisco
  • 2013

    • Yogaworks / Mill Valley
    • Andalu / San Francisco
    • STUDIO 333, Sausalito
    • Open Studios Marin
  • 2012 & Before

    • Acabello Salon / San Francisco (2012)
    • STUDIO 333 / Sausalito (2012
    • Coverity / San Francisco (2011)
    • Flourish / San Anselmo (2011)
    • Andalu / San Francisco (2011)
    • City Art / San Francisco (2010)