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Artist Talk: Heather Cline

January 14, 2026 - January 14, 2026

Walking towards landscape: How collaboration, conservation and aerial observation led to an exploration of landscape painting

Rounding, Kenderdine Art Gallery
Wednesday, January 14, 2025 at 12:30pm

Cline will discuss the practice and history of landscape painting on her artistic development in the context of her most recent collaboration with the Nature Conservancy of Canada: a body of artwork entitled Viewfinder. Cline will share stories from the field and her experience of observing the land from the passenger seat of a Cessna Skyhawk, touching on the challenges and rewards of an art practice based in public engagement.   

Image: Heather Cline, Viewfinder, One of Clint's  Favourtie Views, Beaver Valley, 2025, acrylic panel, 40 x 120 in. Copyright of the artist.

About the Artist

Heather Cline is a professional artist based in Saskatchewan. Cline has a deep interest in public interaction, and has participated in residency programs and community engagement across Canada. Her activities have included setting up a ‘Story Collection’ office from an inner-city store front in Oshawa, Ontario and riding along on combines in rural Manitoba. In her most recent art work she is exploring the radically altered terrain of Western Canada in a series of aerial landscape paintings based on observations from the passenger seat of a Cessna Skyhawk. In the spring of 2023 Cline is starting a major collaborative project with the Nature Conservancy of Canada. The goal of this new project is to explore Western Canadian landscape through a conservation lens. Cline will be working with Nature Conservancy of Canada (NCC) staff, volunteers and stakeholders, exploring some of the important conservation work done by the organization through interaction on the land and in the air.

Cline has her MFA from the University of Saskatchewan and has exhibited in multiple group exhibitions, with solo exhibitions at the Robert McLaughlin Gallery (Oshawa, ON), the Mendel Art Gallery in Saskatoon, and regional exhibition centres throughout Western Canada. Her work can be found in many public and private collections throughout North America and in Europe, including the Colart Collection, the Mendel Collection at the Remai Modern and the Saskatchewan Arts Board.

Biography from Slate Fine Art Gallery, retrieved December 15, 2025.