Nathan Heinze

Artist Statement

My desire is to create paintings that capture a feeling of mystery, beauty, and melancholy - "to reach the unreachable, to discover the undiscoverable, to touch the divine."

Biography

At the age of eight, Heinze began studying under the late Helen Carkin, a renowned batik artist. Throughout high school and college he won various art awards and interned at Pittard Sullivan, one of Hollywood's top broadcast graphic design houses. He helped designed set pieces for TNT and NBC and storyboarded commercials for large corporate clients. After that, Heinze was the illustrator for York Publishing before working on projects for Disney, the NBA, Oracle, Simon & Schuster, Cosmos-Maya Studios, Applewood Books, Arcadia Publishing, and more.

In 2021 Heinze pivoted to fine art and is focused on creating paintings that capture a feeling of mystery, beauty, and melancholy. His work can be found in several Tampa and Sarasota area galleries and in private collections across the country.

Exhibition History (CV)