Honesty is a key trait of the artist who does not make effort towards any superficial exaggeration but who is fully committed to keenly expressing what she observes in terms of color relationships, balance, harmony, and sensations of sensuality and spirituality that coincide. These are contradictory forces and inclinations of the artist, who finds both sensuous and spiritual meaning in the colors that she sees and the paints that she applies onto the canvas.

Heller’s New York exhibitions include the Cork Gallery in Lincoln Center and St. Peter’s Church in the Citicorp Building. In her home state of New Jersey, Montclair State University Gallery One featured Heller in a solo exhibition. She has been the recipient of various juried prizes, and Artspeak Magazine has described her work as “colors (creating) a shimmering surface….Warm and cool, light and dark, they dance around the canvas until flowers, bushes or trees emerge from a tapestry of marks. The seductive mosaic of color is satisfying in itself.”

Heller’s work was chosen to represent New Jersey in the permanent collection of PNC Bank in Pittsburgh, and is also included in numerous private collections. Her encaustic painting, “Emerging Spring,” was selected for inclusion in Marcie Cooperman’s seminal textbook, “Color: How to Use It,” published in 2013 by the educational publisher Pearson in coordination with Parsons/The New School of Design. In addition to Ceres Gallery, Heller has shown at the Yaacov Heller Gallery in Boca Raton, Florida,  Portage Hill Gallery in Mayville, NY, Chester Gallery in Chester, Connecticut and Harvest Gallery in Dennis, Massachusetts.