Heather Jean was born in 1975, in New London, Connecticut, and grew up in the majestic wilderness of upstate New York. Her time was spent chasing invisible woodland creatures and reading about ancient myths, gods and cultures. Brian Froud's Fairies and the Time-Life Enchanted World series her father had given to her as a gift fueled her imagination and set the stage for her artistic inspirations in the future.

Armed with a few art supplies, mix tapes and a few old copies of national geographic, Heather Jean made her way to New York City for college. She led the life of a punk rock art student; classes, clubs, a little modeling, and scraping to make ends meet until she settled down in Northern New Jersey.

Her current style was born out of necessity more than anything else. Mixed media, assemblage, and collage allowed her to work with little space for large canvases or the funds for expensive paints and brushes. Although she still enjoys dabbling with oils or acrylics on occasion, her true love is still working with photographs, ink, wax, nicknacks, and whatever else she finds laying about, anything that she can glue down to a solid surface. Her subject matter reflects her interests from childhood, recreating ancient gods in a modern environment, or exploring old time art and science from apothecaries and turn of the century curiosity cabinets with her own unique style.