Heidi McGurrin specializes in Fine Art, Commercial Display, Weddings and Portraiture. For the past few years she has been teaching as a Professional Artist in the Schools for the Arts Council of Monterey County and giving her own private workshops on creativity, using journal and collage imagery to create individual personal stories. Her work has been featured in Books, Magazines, and on album covers locally and nationally. Her photographs have been published in 'Steinbeck Country Revisited' 2000, and 'Coyote' by Richard Miller. Her illustrations accompany the stories in the 'Rocky Point Murders' published October, 2001. Her ‘Havana Dream’ book has just been published on Blurb.com. For the last 31 years she has been photographing Big Sur, and the Central Coast of California, the Southwest and the Southern hemisphere. Cuba, Haiti and Mexico. She has worked with several well known photographers including Brett Weston, Cole Weston, Al Weber, and Morley Baer.

Heidi’s photography has been exhibited in Galleries and Museums throughout the Central Coast and Washington D.C. She recently finished a commission for the Santa Lucia Preserve in Carmel Valley. She has exhibited at the Monterey Peninsula Museum, the Carl Cherry Foundation, the Center for Photographic Art, and the Ansel Adams Gallery, to name a few.

She has a strong interest in Mexico, Cuba, and Haiti from where she has recently returned with a rich collection. Her images evoke the time and spirit of the currently unsettled states, and endangered lifestyle of their people. Heidi McGurrin is becoming known for her Cuban, Haitian and Mexican work. She has been honored to present her Cuban Exhibition work on Capitol Hill in Washington D.C. In May of 1998 she was invited by Congressman Sam Farr to present her collection of Cuban photography in the the Cannon House Rotunda. Her life thoughts and travel impressions were written into the Congressional Record by Congress. In September 2011, she published her Cuban book ‘Havana Dream’ on www.Blurb.com.

Heidi photographs tell stories that make you feel the rhythm of our planet and helps us understand it better. Her images are about being strong and being in one’s heart. The timeless beauty of her photography surrounds us and makes us feel the infinity of life itself.

Photography allows for the exploration and alternate perception of our daily environment. What touches me most, is seeing the transformation of a priori insignificant objects into meaningful and beautiful ones. My pictures are the result of a wandering and wondering state of mind. My interest expanded to other visual art practices: collages and paintings. In the collages that can be “classic” (paper and glue) or digital, I can pick colors, shapes, models, objects, sceneries. This allows me to use the images made by other artists and incorporate them into mine. This is a common artistic approach, in which the art of someone else resonates in us and can be revisited. I also started painting, experimenting with different types of paints: water color, acrylics, oil paints, inks. My paintings represent sceneries inspired by cities and seashores or ideas summarized by symbols. As I view photography as creating a picture from multiple “outsides”, I view painting as creating one from multiple “insides”. While most of my work is photography, some images are the results of several ones. Combining photography, sometimes images from magazines and paintings through digital processing allows to apply and discover in a fast way various changes a picture can go through, and the different meanings it can convey. By assembling several images, I summarize in one, emotions, stories inspired by personal events.

My artistic expression is grounded in an inherent appreciation for detail, wonder for the natural world, a deeply rooted love of music, and dedication to the creative process. From my ever-present conscious experience of living this human life, I gather personal truths that find their voices within my artwork. Through this journey, my goal is to help someone feel something from the inside out. More specifically, to share with someone feel the way I feel, at least for just a moment; to show them the world through my eyes, with all of it's beauty, imperfections, unbelievable detail, and bright wonder. My aim is to slow down the pace of living for a few moments, and allow people to take their own time to appreciate exactly where they are, because, I believe that Time is the most valuable gift in this world, and we should always know that we are exactly where we need to be.