helenmilesart

Born in Melbourne Helen’s love of the creative has been a driving force for most of her life. Being self taught Helen finds the wonder of colour, both intense and delicate, stimulates her senses and charges her creativity. Over the last thirty plus years she has thrived on discovering her unique approach to a wide variety of subjects including landscapes, seascapes, florals, native flora and fauna, animal studies, and the whimsical and alternative. Pastel has emerged as her most used mediums but she occasionally experiments with everything and anything and is fascinated at the surprising and sometimes pleasing results. While Helen enjoys traditional and representational painting she occasionally tests her capabilities and pushes her boundaries into the more contemporary and abstract fields. The magnificent Great Dividing Range near where she lives supplies Helen with a myriad of painting possibilities. Time means nothing while she is working in her studio. She has, at times, been known to forget to feed her husband (and herself), and often arrives back in the house looking like a multi-coloured ghost after pastel painting. Helen enjoys the silence and solitude of her own studio space where she can experiment and paint without interruption. During operating her successful gallery in Melbourne in the early 1990’s Helen’s watercolour and pastel series of Australian butterflies and flora proved very popular with both locals and overseas visitors. The gallery showcased some of Australia’s most well known and emerging artists in regular exhibitions. In the past Helen has taught painting professionally and privately over many years and her commitment and passion for art is revealed in her involvement in a variety of art societies and committees. She is the past Secretary and President of the Kilmore Art Society Inc., past Vice President of the Seymour and District Art Society Inc, a member of the Woodend Art Group and a Signature member of the Victorian Pastel Society She was also the past Artistic Director of the Kilmore Art Expo for fouteen years. Sale of her work, publications in Australian Artist Magazine, Artist’s Palette Magazine and Victorian Pastel Society Magazine, and awards received, encourages Helen to strive to improve. She has entered and sold her works at numerous art shows over many years and to date has won over 130 awards, commendations and prizes. Her work hangs in private collections throughout Australia, Japan, USA, New Zealand, Denmark, Italy and Scotland. Helen regularly exhibits at The Danish Room, Kilmore Picture Framers (Kilmore), 600 Above Wine Bar (Woodend), Holgates Hotel (Woodend), exhibitions with the Victorian and Australian Pastel Societies, along with many metropolitan and regional art shows.

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