Heather Dawe

Heather is an Otley-based painter and writer.

She has written several books about her time spent in the mountains, climbing, running and cycling – they include A Bicycle Ride in Yorkshire, Adventures in Mind, and her latest book Think Again, on AI, mountains and intuition.

Think Again draws together two parts of Heather's life that might look unrelated — a career working with data and artificial intelligence, and a lifetime spent moving through mountains. It is an exploration of intuition: what it is, where it comes from, and what is at stake as we hand more and more of our thinking to machines. Think Again will be published in North America in October 2026 and in the UK in November 2026.

Her paintings, in oil, pastel and watercolour, are inspired by mountains and the light that moves across them.