Heather Pasero – Works
A mid-sized abstract painting on canvas, photographed in a minimalist studio setting against a seamless, neutral grey backdrop. The artwork rests on a slender, unobtrusive plinth that keeps the frame fully visible. Swathes of foggy white, charcoal, and muted moss green intertwine, with delicate scratches and glazed layers giving a sense of depth and stillness. A simple, detached placard in front shows title, year, medium, dimensions, price, and a brief description, all rendered clearly without ornament. Soft box studio lighting from both sides provides even, shadowless illumination that preserves true color and fine texture, with subtle specular highlights on thicker paint passages. Captured from a slightly elevated, perfectly centered angle, everything beyond the painting and card fades gently, creating a calm, analytical yet intimate mood.

About Heather

Context for the paintings: influences, process, and the quiet spaces they are made to hold.

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Presence in Paint: Heather Pasero

Heather Pasero creates abstract and figurative paintings that hold stillness, layered color, and quiet emotional resonance. Working from memory and observation, she invites slow looking. For bespoke works, she collaborates closely with collectors to shape site-specific commissions.

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A close-up, photographic detail of a contemporary abstract painting, filling the frame so that the canvas edges are just out of view. Thick, layered strokes of smoky blue, raw umber, and off-white build a textured surface, with subtle cracks, scraped lines, and translucent washes visible in exquisite detail. The lighting is soft and raking from the left, highlighting impasto ridges and revealing true color without harsh reflections. At the lower edge, slightly blurred yet legible, a small printed label set against a neutral wall shows the work’s title, year, medium, dimensions, price, and a one-sentence description. The composition uses shallow depth of field to keep the painting’s surface in crisp focus while gently softening the background, creating an intimate, contemplative mood that invites close, quiet viewing.
A large, vertical figurative painting in a refined white-walled gallery alcove, captured in high-resolution photographic realism. The canvas shows a solitary, simplified silhouette rendered in muted flesh tones, slate blue, and pale ochre, emerging from a hazy abstract background. The brushwork alternates between smooth glazed areas and rough, gestural strokes, all crisply visible. To the right, a neatly aligned wall label presents the painting’s title, year, medium, dimensions, price, and description in subtle black text. The floor is light oak with a soft matte finish, extending into a gently out-of-focus distance. Ceiling track lights provide balanced, neutral illumination, accentuating true colors and surface depth. Composed frontally with slight negative space around the work, the atmosphere feels intimate, poised, and quietly emotive.

Studio Practice and Recurring Themes

In the studio, Heather layers oil, acrylic, and graphite, building surfaces that feel both weathered and luminous. Recurring motifs—thresholds, vessels, and distant figures—suggest remembered places, offering a grounded yet open field for contemplation.

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