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Heather Tomlinson currently works at Eastern Oregon University as a costume design professor. The focus of her artwork centers around costumes, clothing and fiber arts. Her visual artwork typically includes geometric and/or abstract shapes with texture. The natural beauty of abstract forms and colors found in nature serves as inspiration-- those varying shapes, textures and colors found therein. Current events and feelings work their way into the pieces to affect the colors, arrangement and general mood of a piece. Her work is an impression of the complicated network of elements found around us-- harmoniously pieced together. Tufting is the main process utilized in her artwork but a combination of other fiber art methods are used in her work as well.