2009 – 2013

The images are from a time when I had just left school and started studying Art and Design at college. There’s a lot of work from this period that is missing.

I remember having a deep sense of hopelessness growing in the world as it was. I would frequently have dreams of a zombie apocalypse and even hoped something drastic like that would happen, because the world just didn’t feel quite right to me.

We are only limited by our own beliefs, which I imagine is why I felt so aimless. Then I created this piece—the two tribal elephants—and it gave me strength. I stopped procrastinating, stopped beating myself up, and picked myself up. I started applying myself. I had just built a world—a world of my own.

Heidi swift from barnsley abstract artwork
Heidi swift abstract artwork
Heidi swift abstract artwork swirls
Heidi swift punk clown artwork
Heidi swift tiger cubs artwork pencil and watercolour
Heidi swift tiger painting artwork barnsley college
Heidi swift birds and bugs artwork
Heidi swift abstract bug artwork
Heidi swift yellow abstract bug artwork
Abstract surrealist artwork by heidi swift
Mixed media cherry blossom artwork abstract by heidi swift barnsley artist
Surrealist landscape and eye artwork by heidi swift
Tea cup patterned textile artwork by heidi swift
Self portrait doll artwork by heidi swift
Abstract sketch book artwork by heidi swift book of experiments.
Colourful abstract bird by heidi swift
Colourfull abstract skull painting by heidi swift
Abstract surrealist ice cream and tab ends artwork by heidi swift
Surrealist abstract elephants artworks by heidi swift
Abstract landscape north gawber pit barnsley artwork by heidi swift

Exploring worlds.

2014 – 2016