Connecting with Color
BY CHARLOTTE RUSSELL
In her Holly Springs studio, artist Heather Eck starts her spiritual art practice by meditating with essential oils, sage, journaling and prayer. Feeling and color serve as the roots of her intuitive painting process. She connects her color selections to the chakra system, in which each chakra is associated with a color of the rainbow. Eck believes it is possible to find your spiritual meaning when you connect with color. In “Looking Within,” she used every color of the chakra system to connect, reflect, and activate her spiritual meaning and goals for 2023.
Eck is a creator, mother and collaborator. Her work is included in private collections and exhibited in local and regional venues. It has been featured in a residency at Blush Cowork (a women-focused coworking space in Cary), commissioned by institutions and individuals, and promoted in international publications that are featured in collaborative projects, including a forthcoming fashion collection. View more of her work at heathereck.com and on Instagram at @heathereckartist.
“This painting explores my body’s different chakras (energy centers). Every color from the chakra system is represented here. This work is a call to go within and to be intentional about how I want to show up this year.” — Heather Eck
BELOW: Looking Within | Heather Eck | 2023 | Acrylic on canvas | 48 x 30 inches
