Heather Thomas Art

“Our Living Thread”
“Our Living Thread”
(High River as Home Triptych)

The river remembers before we do.

Winding through fields, neighbourhoods, crossings, and quiet edges of town, the Highwood becomes more than a waterway here. It becomes a pulse… a living thread connecting memory, movement, longing, and home.

These panels began with fragments of maps and aerial pathways, but slowly softened into something less literal. Streets dissolve into current. Boundaries blur. What remains is the feeling of a place carried internally long after a road is taken or a season changes.

The river moves through each piece like a line of continuity… gathering histories, holding traces of belonging, and reminding us that home is rarely fixed. It shifts, returns, disappears, and reveals itself again in unexpected ways.

This work is an offering to the land that held us for a time, and to the quiet currents that continue to move through us long after we leave.
“Our Living Thread” Abstracted High River, AB. Triptych. 3x20x20”. 2026. Acrylic and mixed media on canvas. For sale.

“Sisters in the Morning”. 2026. 16x40.” Acrylic on canvas.
I have lived in Southern Alberta for almost 7 years and I’ve never done a mountain painting - until now. So here you go - “sisters in the Morning” is inspired by the spring air, the warming sun and melting snow.