Hedwig Heerschop
Dutch-American Hedwig M. Heerschop is a photographer, printmaker, educator, and curator who lives and works in Santa Cruz, California. She completed her Master of Fine Arts/Photography at San José State University, San José, California. She taught Alternative Processes in Photographic Media at San José State University. She assisted in many photography workshops with Brian Taylor, Dan Estabrook, Holly Roberts, Dan Burkholder, Harold Davis and Steve Zmak.Hedwig curated two national exhibits for Pajaro Valley Arts, Photo Alchemy, Alternative Processes in Photographic Media, and produced two accompanying catalogs. For the last several years she is the curator of Pajaro Valley Arts’ annual exhibit, Sculpture IS: In the Garden at Sierra Azul Nursery & Gardens. Her work has been exhibited nationally and internationally in solo and group exhibitions, including, For Queen & Country, at San José State University, San José, CA (her Master Thesis Exhibit), Breaking Boundaries, in Pingyao, China and Made in Holland, in Naarden, The Netherlands.Many of her works are in the collection of art collectors in Europe and the Unites States of America. Currently Hedwig divides her time working as Exhibit Coordinator at Pajaro Valley Arts in Watsonville, CA., and as a printmaker/photographer at her studios in Aptos and Santa Cruz, CA.
Amsterdam series
Painting with Light series
The technique called Light painting is a form of photography in which light trails are captured from luminous subjects with a long shutter speed. Although there is not much light at night, it's the ideal time to explore and discover fascinating possibilities. The camera will take longer to take a photo than during the day, because it takes a while for the sensor to collect enough light. Photographing light trails, meaning photographing a moving light source so that it becomes a line in the photo.
Sunflower series
The stages of the life cycle of the sunflowers in these prints are intertwined through color using the technique, a la poupée. * The colors reflect the link we have with the life of sunflowers; the bright yellows, orange, pinks and greens of the full blooming cycle to parched browns and dull yellows of the wilting and death cycle. With this series I attempt to draw the viewer into the “cycle of life” in general, and to a deeper understanding of how all-living things are tied together. - Hedwig
