HÉLÈNE FARRAR

 

"In my painting, I am drawn to creating active, layered surfaces with brave uses of color and composition. I often work in series, with most of my ideas originating from my creative writing where there is a constant interest in the personal, story, and reflection. Some titles of ongoing series work are: What My Mother Taught Me, Route 1, Dog Contemplates World Peace, Body As Map, and The Landscape Diaries. I also use straightforward still life and landscape work as a momentum-building component in my painting practice."

 

 

Hélène Farrar has had extensive teaching of the visual arts from formal classrooms to community based art experiences. She is currently a working, professional artist who is co-owner of Cerulean Fine Art Gallery and Artist Studios in Hallowell, ME. She is an adjunct professor of art at the University of Maine at Augusta where she teaches drawing and design. Hélène has an MFA in Interdisciplinary Arts from Goddard College and a BA in Art from the University of Maine.