![This Porsche 906 classic car features in this work by artist Heidi Mraz Classic & Sports Car – Motoring art: Heidi Mraz](/sites/default/files/styles/article/public/2023-04/Classic%20%26%20Sports%20Car%20%E2%80%93%20Motoring%20art%20%E2%80%93%20Heidi%20Mraz%20%E2%80%93%2004.png?itok=vC-Hm1Hq)
“My art mission is to share car stories,” says Heidi Mraz. “For me that’s what matters. I see my work as part documentary.”
The novel creative process that led to Heidi’s dazzling montages started at a local ‘cars and coffee’ event in Great Falls, Virginia: “I became sucked into the tales the owners were telling and needed to know more.
“Out of that interest I started creating collages built up from magazine cuttings and my photos. It seemed the perfect medium to document these stories.”
![A classic Bugatti Type 22 Brescia was retrieved from the bottom of Lake Maggiore, Italy, and inspired this commission Classic & Sports Car – Motoring art: Heidi Mraz](/sites/default/files/2023-04/Classic%20%26%20Sports%20Car%20%E2%80%93%20Motoring%20art%20%E2%80%93%20Heidi%20Mraz%20%E2%80%93%2002.png)
The incredible story of the 1925 Bugatti T22 Brescia salvaged from Lake Maggiore inspired Beneath the Surface, which was itself submerged in the lake for added authenticity
Heidi’s distinctive style soon attracted the attention of car collectors including Peter Mullin, who commissioned an artwork inspired by the Bugatti raised from the bed of Lake Maggiore.
She researched the amazing story for six months before starting her intricate assemblage of hundreds of carefully cut elements.