Heather Scott
Heather Scott is a practicing Mitsuro wax and jewelry artist who has been developing her technique for nearly a decade. In that time, she’s perfected the mitsuro technique’s climate-sensitive wax recipe and learned to bring out the natural beauty of the material to form wearable artisan jewelry. Mitsuro is a rare 1,300-year-old Japanese blended wax technique that creates organic designs with beautiful striations.
Heather discovered mitsuro at the perfect time in her life. As a young artist in Hawaii, Heather was moved by energy flowing through her tropical surroundings and sought a way to express that sense of motion in her work. From the wind of the rainforest coursing through the mountains to the tumbling surf of the Hawaiian shoreline and the currents of the endless deep blue ocean, the sweeping design of the mitsuro technique proved to be a perfect outlet for Heather’s interpretation of her environment.
Heather needs to make art! She sees the world connected through lines, textures, angles, and emotion. When she creates a piece of art, her goal is to capture the nature of a chosen theme abstractly and communicate its
essence. She dives deep into her soul and imagination, letting her hands and mind work together with her heart to create shapes, designs, and images that communicate how she relates to the world. Through her art, she hopes to evoke positive feelings and exchanges with other people. And, of course, she enjoys creating, learning, and sharing all of this with you!
She can bring more beauty and passion to the world by sharing art with you. Since mitsuro wax is not commercially available, the process begins by blending specific ratios of materials together to create the mitsuro. ‘After cooling, the wax is heated to body temperature and hand manipulated by pulling, twisting, and folding. During this process, delicate striations, called hikime, are created in the mitsuro wax. These sweeping lines and grooves lend to the organic shapes and nature-inspired designs that Heather Scott utilizes in her wearable art jewelry. Finally, the wax form is used to produce a single-use mould which, when metal is added, produces the finished silver or gold jewelry piece. Since the mould is destroyed in the process, no two pieces are exactly alike. Accentuation of the striations and textures are created during the finishing process by patination and selective polishing. This technique adds a striking contrast in the fine contours of Heather’s works.
