Sculptor and teacher, born a British citizen in Hamburg, West Germany, daughter of the glass engraver Patrick Heriz-Smith and the painter Audrey Pilkington. She studied at Goldsmiths’ College, 1973, with Carl Plackman, and at Ravensbourne College of Art & Design, 1974–7, with Eric Peskett and Brian Fielding. From 1978–86 Heriz taught at the Clock House Art Centre, Suffolk, from then on working full-time as a self-employed sculptor. Of her work Heriz said that it was “based on human experience, and therefore strongly uses the human figure, but entwined with images of biological and geological metamorphoses, the theme being one of growth”. Heriz cited life drawing as the foundation of her sculpture. Over the years, Cubism, particularly Braque, the Russian Constructivists, and the putti of Donatello were influences.