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ARTIST PROFILE - Helene Halstuch
Selected Works (Click on the thumbnail for larger photo)
Title: Towards Charroux
Size: 40" X 36"
Date: 2001
Medium: Oil on linen |
Title: Still Life with Hydrangeas
Size: 30" X 36"
Date: 2001
Medium: Oil on linen |
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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