Alice Heise Biography

Alice Heise was born not quite on the 4th of July somewhere in the woods of the Pacific Northwest, the daughter of hippie parents, Sharon and Doug. Three sisters, Liberty, Sheena and Fia, and a brother, Harlan, soon joined her. One day as a young girl, while organizing colored pencils in Chewelah, Washington, Alice popped down a rabbit hole that looked suspiciously like the pencil sharpener on a 48–color box of Crayolas. She found herself drifting slowly down, down, past strange and surreal characters, flowers no one had ever seen before, whimsied dream images of kittens and insects, curiouser and curiouser, before finally landing squarely on her feet in the Art department at Cornish College of the Arts in Seattle, Washington.

A few years later, Alice left with a Bachelor’s in Fine Arts, the Mary Weeks Scholarship for being the most unique artist and a head still full of otherworldly images of dream characters and surreal landscapes. Lately she’s ended up in a coffee cup in Ithaca, New York, accompanied by two fantastic cats, Orson and Pedee, her husband Kevin, strange and surreal in his own right, a brand new house and a handy collection of pods and insects.

She spends her time filling children’s rooms and parents dreams with her pictures, whimsical in content but done in a style that lends them a dizzying realism. You can try to track her down out hiking the gorges of Ithaca or hard at work on a new series of pieces, or you can simply rub the sleep from your eyes, click a button and look around.

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