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ARTIST PROFILE - Helene Halstuch

Selected Works (Click on the thumbnail for larger photo)

Towards Charroux
Title: Towards Charroux
Size: 40" X 36"
Date: 2001
Medium: Oil on linen
Still Life with Hydrangeas
Title: Still Life with Hydrangeas
Size: 30" X 36"
Date: 2001
Medium: Oil on linen

The Stream at St. Vincent
The Stream at St. Vincent
10" x 8" - Monotype and Pastel

Many times while I paint I feel like a conjurer, taking colour, mixing it, and applying it to a board or canvas. I am fascinated by the way a mark, which is expressive, can also be representational and how a gesture or density of paint can have duality.

At times I feel like I am composing a piece of music, with each mark a note. Adding, subtracting, enlarging, simplifying until harmony is reached. I am attracted to the mysterious and subtle. The play of light, colour and form of the three dimensional world is food for the visual appetite.

I attempt to achieve the recognizable but not the immediate, preferring the image to unfold and surprises to be found. Each painting has a strong relationship to the previous one and ideas develop and evolve as I am continuously challenged by the pursuit.

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