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Heather Horton @heatherhorton.bsky.social · 4d

“If the reality of our life has become an unsettling arabesque puzzle & we still want to add more filigree embroidery to it …we might … lose the final thread …be expelled to the edge of delusion …dance on the brim of chaos.”~Erik Pevernagie

“Filigree”, oil, 18”x24”, available via @pontonegallery.

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Heather Horton @heatherhorton.bsky.social · 7d

“Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.”
~Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Calm”, oil on panel, 18”x24”, available. 🟢

Please contact me with any questions about purchasing this piece.

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Heather Horton @heatherhorton.bsky.social · 8d

Rubenesque moon, jumpin’ the tracks and ancestral family vault, Hamilton, ON. 🇨🇦♥️

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Heather Horton @heatherhorton.bsky.social · 9d

“I have climbed into the belfry of my mind and rung the bell until the echoes answered back.”
~Sylvia Plath

“Bruges Belfry”, oil on panel, 24”x18”, private collection, Delaware. 🔴

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Heather Horton @heatherhorton.bsky.social · 11d

Happy Friday to you :) Here’s “A Quiet Place” & an inadvertent Batman on my palette..🦇🎨

Just over 3 months til the @LAArtShow!
I’ll be there with brand new unseen work at Pontone Gallery’s booth. January 7-11,2026.
“A Quiet Place”, oil, 36”x36”, priv collection.🔴

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Heather Horton @heatherhorton.bsky.social · 14d

“The room was a world within a world, a pocket of time where the dead and the living spoke together.”~Truman Capote, ‘Other Voices, Other Rooms.

Where you lay waiting”,oil, 30”x40”, private coll.

“Morning Sun, Almonte”,oil,
6”x4”, private coll.

“Other Voices, Other Rooms”,oil 30”x24”, priv coll.

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Heather Horton @heatherhorton.bsky.social · 16d

“What I dream of is an art of balance, of purity and serenity….something like a comforting influence, a mental balm.”~Henri Matisse

“A great comfort”, oil on panel, 36”x36”, private collection. 🔴

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Heather Horton @heatherhorton.bsky.social · 19d

When your art is living its best life. 🥰

Had a wonderful photoshoot yesterday with my friend Gayle who I’ve painted probably 20 times over the years. Can’t wait to see what this calm and colourful session yields on the easel!

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Heather Horton @heatherhorton.bsky.social · 20d

I love the different quality and intensity of light at different places in the world. Different latitudes and architecture dance with light in different ways. The most beautiful grey skies I’ve ever seen are in two places: Newfoundland and London. 🩶

“Ann, Richmond”, 15”x30”, private collection.🔴

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Heather Horton @heatherhorton.bsky.social · 22d

“On the stone slab beneath the
chimney-piece are inscribed the words Non fatuum huc persecutus
ignem – ‘It is no will-o’-the-wisp that I have followed here.”
~Gavin Maxwell, ‘Ring of Bright Water’

“Mijbil”, oil on panel, 16”x16”, private collection, Burlington, Ontario. 🔴

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Heather Horton @heatherhorton.bsky.social · 22d

“On the stone slab beneath the
chimney-piece are inscribed the words Non fatuum huc persecutus
ignem – ‘It is no will-o’-the-wisp that I have followed here.”
~Gavin Maxwell, ‘Ring of Bright Water’

“Mijbil”, oil on panel, 16”x16”, private collection, Burlington, Ontario. 🔴

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Heather Horton @heatherhorton.bsky.social · 26d

I’m working hard towards the @laartshow in January 2026 with @pontonegallery…lots of new paintings will be there and I hope you will too! The show runs from January 7-12,2026 at the LA Convention Center!

Here are some recent palette pics of paint being pushed around as the pieces coalesce..

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Heather Horton @heatherhorton.bsky.social · 29d

“In truth, the work itself is an adventure. And no artist could go about this work, or would want to, with less than extraordinary energy and concentration. The extraordinary is what art is all about.”~Mary Oliver

“I Dreamt Music”, oil, 20”x16”, private collection. 🔴

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Heather Horton @heatherhorton.bsky.social · Sep 12

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Heather Horton @heatherhorton.bsky.social · Sep 12

“In creative work-creative work of all kinds-those who are the world’s working artists are not trying to help the world go around, but forward. Which is something altogether different from the ordinary.”-Mary Oliver, from ‘Of Power & Time’.

“Cabinet”, oil on canvas, 20”x16”, private collection.

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Heather Horton @heatherhorton.bsky.social · Sep 10

“Creative work needs solitude. It needs concentration, without interruptions. It needs the whole sky to fly in and no one watching until it comes to that certainty which it aspires to but not necessarily have at once.”~Mary Oliver

“Work in progress”, oil, 20”x16”, private coll. 🔴

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Heather Horton @heatherhorton.bsky.social · Sep 8

“But Lí Ban east and west shall swim
Long ages on the ocean’s rim,
By mystic shores and islets dim,
And down in the deep sea cave!”
~Sir Samuel Ferguson

“Lí Ban”, oil on panel. 9”x12”, oil on panel, private collection. 🔴

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Heather Horton @heatherhorton.bsky.social · Sep 7

I every painting I feel as though I’m falling or floating.

“SW Coast Path, Mawgan Porth”, oil on panel, 15.5”x23” and “Mawgan Porth”, oil on panel, 18”x24”, private collection. 🔴

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Heather Horton @heatherhorton.bsky.social · Sep 4

“The alchemical image is never an invention of the imagination; it is always a symbol in the true sense.” ~Carl Jung

“The Alchemist”, oil on canvas, 36”x24”, private collection🔴.

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Heather Horton @heatherhorton.bsky.social · Sep 2

“Awareness is like the sun. When it shines on things, they are transformed.”
~Thích Nhất Hạnh

“Kerri, Aware”, oil on canvas, 18”x36”, now lives on the surface of the moon as part of the Windrift collection on board #TheLunarCodex, which still blows my mind when I think I about it. 🌕🚀

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Heather Horton @heatherhorton.bsky.social · Aug 31

“Witness this earth, witness this heaven and the down‑dropping water of the Styx.”~Hesiod

And sold! 🔴 “Into the Styx”, oil on canvas, 36”x18”, has a new forever home on Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.

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Heather Horton @heatherhorton.bsky.social · Aug 27

“The stars are not afraid to appear like fireflies. The silence of the night proclaims their presence with a stillness that fills the heart.”
~Rabindranath Tagore

“Jeanine, poised”, oil on panel, 12”x12”, private collection. 🔴

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Heather Horton @heatherhorton.bsky.social · Aug 26

Here are 3 paintings that give me hope. Three paintings that say ‘let’s go on this adventure together’.

“The Wall”, oil, 60”x40”, private coll, Aspen, Colorado,🔴
“Inside”, oil, 9”x7”, private coll, LA, 🔴
& “Muscles Better and Nerves More”, oil on canvas, 24”x36”, available at @pontonegallery.🟢

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Heather Horton @heatherhorton.bsky.social · Aug 26

I’m working hard towards the fair on a whole bunch of new paintings. Please come out if you can. It runs from January 7-11th, 2026 in downtown LA at the Convention Centre.

You’ll be able to find my work at @pontonegallery’s booth during the fair.🩵 Please contact the gallery with any questions.

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Heather Horton @heatherhorton.bsky.social · Aug 26

to get above and past this. Because there are kitties on the horizon, a love burning brighter than ever in my heart & my paintings will be at the fabulous @laartshow show in January 2026!

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