Helen Utsal's colourful landscape paintings express Nature's exuberant and vital spirit.
Gesture, expression and emotion weave into colour, texture and light. Helen spends a lot of time in Nature, sometimes painting outside with acrylics to study and capture dynamic impressions. In the studio she uses oil paint mixed with cold wax medium to bring texture and depth to the painting. Often stapling canvas to the wall, Helen likes to work on a large scale, using big palette knives and lots of motion. She makes many of her own canvas stretchers, which allows her to work in unique sizes. Creating the whole object from raw canvas to finished painting imprints it with an energy of its own.