HEIDI ROBICHAUD
This artist has been creating scrimshaw since 1981. Heidi's love of art spans from her childhood passion for drawing horses and princesses to her current portraits of wildlife and indigenous peoples. Although the artist has had no formal training or schooling in art, years of practice, study and experimentation have honed her style.
Heidi moved to Alaska in 1979, where she fell in love with the land, the wildlife and the culture. She has lived in several areas of remote "bush" Alaska and currently resides in the small remote community of Gustavus, surrounded by Glacier Bay National Park.
Heidi became familiar with ivory while commercial fishing in Kodiak Alaska in 1980. After purchasing an ancient walrus tusk in a bar, she dedicated herself to finding an artist who could instruct her in the art of scrimshaw. Traveling across the United States in search of ivory art, she discovered the work of Diane Jacobs Thompson. Heidi spent one summer apprenticing with Diane in Seward, Alaska during which she learned the basic techniques and some of the finer aspects of the craft.
Heidi creates jewelry, knives and custom display pieces on ancient walrus and mammoth ivories and North American antler. She is considered by many to be one of the finest modern wildlife and portrait scrimshanders.
She has recently finished a two year masterpiece, an extremely rare and unique fully scrimshawed mammoth tusk.
Heidi raised her two children surrounded by the wilds of Alaska. Currently living in the home she built on the banks of the Salmon River in Gustavus, Alaska, she enjoys gardening, hiking, fishing and kayaking.
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