Heather Blanchard was born and grew up in in the West Midlands. After attending Wolverhampton and Chelsea Schools of Art, she spent her early career as a successful textile designer based in London and worked as a part-time lecturer.
In the 1980’s she gave up teaching to concentrate on interior design, exhibition design and hand printed wallpapers, also illustrating several countryside and educational publications. She has been a professional fine art painter for over thirty years and has had many successful exhibitions in Essex, Suffolk, Shropshire, Wales, Cumbria and Scotland. She now lives in Dumfries.