Helene Farrar

Rockland/Tenants Harbor - Hélène Farrar is a Maine-based American artist who works primarily in the ancient medium of encaustic. Her colorful paintings draw themes from the natural world and her observations of it, and they have a depth and luminousness achieved through careful attention to texture and surface quality. She considers her work part of a conversation about humanity, beauty, and nature.

“These paintings represent part of a year's work devoted to exploring the landscape surrounding and reaching beyond Manchester and Rockland, Maine.” Of her work Hélène says: “Drawing from my memory, printed resources and studio process, I engaged with place as a structure to play, to scrape, reapply, draw into and splatter the ancient of encaustic (hot, beeswax paint). These places are known to me intimately as I walked, sat with and lingered in them repeatedly. My hope is that you can "sit with" these paintings yourself and find them as a means to meditate.”