Helen Campbell Fine Art

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Much of Helen's present work is rooted in the land around her. She feels a work is most successful when a landscape reveals a conversation between sky and land, and when the paint, colors, textures, and composition fit the overall mood and subject. Sky and sun, wind and weather, fields and folds of land, are constant sources of inspiration for Helen as she attempts to capture the colors, shapes and patterns she sees. Working in acrylic with layering and gestural brush strokes, Helen's goal is for the finished canvas to have substantial structure., lively color, and visible energy.

Most recently Helen has been included in group exhibits at Calvin College, Grand Rapids, MI (2012) and the University of Mary, Bismarck, ND (2011). Highlights of her career include a solo exhibition at the Roberson Center for the Arts and Sciences, Binghamton, NY and a two person show with Alice VanderVennen at the Mill Gallery in her original home town of Bowmanville, Ontario, Canada. She has received awards in New York and Michigan, has participated in juried exhibits in New York, Pennsylvania, Michigan, and North Dakota, and is a member of Bismarck Art and Galleries Association, the North Dakota Art Gallery Association, and of Plein Air Artists. Helen received a BFA from Calvin College, Grand Rapids Mi in 1980 and has lived much of her life in rural North Dakota with her husband and family.

' I love to be outdoors in the middle of what I'm trying to paint, totally absorbed in the process that has the tension of the moment but the challenge of an eternity. My goal is to see more of the visual glories offered by the terrain and unique lighting of west and southcentral North Dakota, and it's big skies, and to be able to use paint and color to describe parts of them....' (excerpts from Helen's plein air artist statement and page: pleinairartists.ning.com/profile/helenjulietcampbell ).