Heather Dawe
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Heather Dawe
@heatherdawe.bsky.social
Writer, artist, climber, data scientist. Generally absorbed by mountains - literature, painting… - with occasional wanderings into AI.
Books. 📚 Both reading and writing. As I’m getting close to a final draft of my new book, I’m finding myself reflecting as I complete the concluding chapters.

#amreading #amwriting #AI #intuition #art #mountains
June 29, 2025 at 4:00 PM
At the Pools of Dee.

#cairngorms
June 22, 2025 at 5:13 PM
A quick visit to the Lakes with Alanna and an evening climb of Helm Crag.

It’s 17 years to the day since I did the Bob Graham Round. Memories of a long, hot, beautiful day up and around the fells.

So awesome to be be back remembering and making new memories 🙂

#lakedistrict
May 31, 2025 at 7:06 PM
‘Raven Crag’ a short story from my Banff shortlisted collection ‘Dreams of Lost Buttresses’ has just been published over on @ukclimbing.com

A story of a woman who begins climbing after befriending a raven high up a mountain in the Lake District.

www.ukclimbing.com/articles/lit...
May 26, 2025 at 12:44 PM
Pastel sketch of Sasso Lungo in the Dolomites.

#dolomites #pastels
May 25, 2025 at 8:12 PM
I’ve not painted for a looong time. Very early days for this one but I’m loving it already, even the beginning frustrations caused by nerves and impatience. I need to wait for it to dry a bit…

#ampainting #workinprogress
May 12, 2025 at 7:16 AM
A fleeting visit today but a what a day to go. Didn’t expect I’d get to the mountain and I’m still smiling :)
May 3, 2025 at 3:42 AM
May 1, 2025 at 3:13 PM
The mountain is out.

I didn’t know it before I came to Seattle but for a lot of the time you don’t see the mountains from the city. One of my friends told me a volcano appears from time to time on the horizon, always dependent on the cloud and haze.
May 1, 2025 at 1:50 PM
Slow time in the forest.

#bluebells
April 27, 2025 at 7:57 AM
Definitely late forties now… cake as baked by my lovely daughter and there’s not much left 😋

#cake
April 22, 2025 at 7:35 PM
Spotted in the Keswick Bookshop.

#mountainliterature
April 19, 2025 at 2:32 PM
More birch sketching. Lawrencefield from a couple of weeks ago.

#pastels #birch
April 19, 2025 at 8:18 AM
Helm Crag.
April 18, 2025 at 3:34 PM
Fine morning for a wander around Silver Howe and Easedale.

#lakedistrict #grasmere
April 18, 2025 at 2:45 PM
Last night’s walk on the Chevin.
April 14, 2025 at 5:04 AM
A henna tattoo of a lizard on my forearm by my niece. It’s giving me ideas… I always said I’d only get one tattoo (and I got that when I was 19).

🦎

#henna #lizard
April 14, 2025 at 5:03 AM
Work in progress - Blea Tarn and moody Langdale Pikes beyond.

#workinprogress #langdale #pastels
April 5, 2025 at 8:14 AM
Trees and light. A pastel sketch from last summer.

#pastels #art #trees
March 24, 2025 at 10:02 PM
Early bike ride into Leeds and the London train. Had to stop to look at the view :)

#wharfedale
March 19, 2025 at 7:07 AM
A pastel sketch of Cìr Mhór and Goatfell from a bright evening on Arran a couple of years ago.

#Arran #art #pastels
March 15, 2025 at 8:51 PM
‘What’s the most challenging thing about working in AI?’

I was interviewed by the BBC on a theme of the proportion of women working in AI development and why we need to change it. This proportion is currently 22%.

Happy International Women’s Day! Let’s keep pushing!
March 8, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Wharfedale morning.
February 23, 2025 at 8:59 AM
I went looking for land skeins at sunrise and found some. This place is so beautiful, feeling so inspired to paint and write.

#sunrise #andalucia
February 20, 2025 at 11:41 AM
Caught some light this evening.

#ElChorro
February 19, 2025 at 5:18 PM