From the Vault: Heidi Coutu

Heidi Coutu (1957-Present) was born and raised in Western Massachusetts.  She attended Mount Holyoke College as a Studio Art and Renaissance Studies major. During her years at Mount Holyoke studying with the accomplished figurative painter, Marion Miller, her love of painting in oils was fostered. She graduated in 1979, and moved to Boston, where she continued to take painting courses at the Museum School and paint independently. She began to paint full- time in 1987. Since that time she has shown in Paris, New York, LA, Houston, Chicago, Boston, and other cities. She has won five “Best in Show” awards and has had seven one-woman shows, including one at the Museum of Fine Arts in Springfield MA. She is collected by hundreds of noteworthy private and corporate clients including Nations Bank, Columbia Pictures, Lego Corporation, Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Company, and the Beverly Hills Hotel.

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