Heather's new line for Free Spirit, named "West Hill", is about the quiet things remembered from springs and summers spent in the hills and small towns of northern Vermont.

Named for a childhood home, West Hill remembers the quiet, almost still sturdiness of the work-horses standing on a summer meadow, the science and magic of "becoming a frog", and the rainy days spent playing with toys and nick nacks gathered from around the world in the days when there was only one television channel and it wasn't any good during the day.

"I can look at the drawings and remember the smells so clearly, the horses, the mucky frog pond, even the sawdust that collected on the insides of a small collection of Matroyshka dolls," Heather recalls.

Colors are drawn from a muddy springtime meadow remembered, bright paints on smooth wood, and the colors of water: deep, dark, yet transparent.