Heyer's paintings are an exploration of histories, both personal and shared, and are inspired by pop culture, esoteric and philosophical issues of our postmodern digital age alienation, nature, and history in general. His work is a hymn to creation and space, a hymn to transformation, and reflections on the human condition he is part of. He wants to pull a universal string, to dig deeper than just reflecting some superficial beauty.

Heyer's works are extremely layered, as he drips paint, scrawls words on the canvas, and mixes mediums including oil and acrylic paints, crayon, pencil, marker, and photo transfer. The process is a combination of the intuitive physicality of highly energetic trance-like strokes and mark makings and a more cerebral highly conscientious process. Starting the work with photographic images from books or the internet laying down a grid - sometimes balanced, sometimes knowingly the opposite - which he transfers in an analogue old-school way to the canvas.

According to Heyer, "A painting should remain a mystery. The interplay with the viewer is an important part, it makes the painting a painting, it's not mine anymore, it's out in the world." Heyer's paintings are infused with the essence of the infinite world of music, old myths, poems, history, books, and music records. His deepest gratitude is to the cosmic order and nature.

Heyer split his time between Germany and Spain, where he mainly works in his studio in Spain. This helps him work in his fragmented way, and for him, art is not a 9-to-5 job. In Germany, he prepares himself with reading and getting inspired and hooked on themes, let the inner need to create grow, and while he is in Spain, he is "exploding," releasing the tension.

Stefan Heyer's work can be found in private collections around the world. He is represented by galleries in the USA, Australia, Germany, and France.