Now residing in Mesa, Arizona, Heidi Maiers has been creating portrait sculpture for over 25 years. She received a bachelor of fine arts from the University of Oregon in 1980 and has since studied with such renowned sculptors as John Coleman, Eugene Daub, and Tuck Langlund at the Scottsdale Artists School. Born in Lancaster, CA, the last child of 8, my love of sculpting developed at an early age when I discovered that I could make figures out of the clay soil of the hot Mojave desert and that they would dry to a state of permanency when left out in the scalding sun. I have been sculpting on and off all of my life unfortunately more off between raising two children and working a full time job at a terrific software development company infograph. I have spent many wee hours in the morning working on a piece, long after any sane person would have gone to bed, knowing that if they dont their brain will be mush the next day. For some reason, when I am working on a piece, I just cant pull myself away I keep seeing just one more thing I want to do before I stop. I look forward to retirement when I will have the time and the freedom to really pursue my passion, and to develop whatever sliver of talent that I have been given. But alas, that is a few years away yet...

Website: http://portraitsculpting.com/