Helen has taken a non-traditional path through the art world. She says that her artist statement is more of a love letter than a academic treatise. It all began, she claims, in her family’s lush garden in Southern California. There she encountered beauty everyday. Her art making began as a middle school student doodling on everything that didn't move. In high school,she was given a rapidograph technical pen and her doodling became intricate, fanciful drawings. After high school Helen left the artistic path to pursue her education, career and family.

Jump ahead several decades and a couple thousand miles, and in the 90’s, Helen and her family moved to the edge of the Cuyahoga Valley National Park. Her childhood fascination with the natural world was rekindled and she found herself needing to give voice to the botanical world around her. So in her mid-fifties, she began to take art classes. She experimented with several different mediums before finding her voice in mixed media collage. From there she spent several years developing her own unique semi-abstract, 3D collage style. Helen uses acrylics, inks, along with mono-printing, intricate cutting, folding, sgraffito and metal gilding in her work. Recently, she began to use her process to create free standing paper assemblages.

Helen is a “new-comer” to the group having been a member of Group Ten Artists for only two years. She says “the friendships, support , and encourage have meant the world to me.”

Find out more about Helen at her website:

helenwilsonart.com