Just when I am fed up with winter, I write the best time of the year? Guess not for weather's sake, but for life's sake. In January, I always find myself in a lot of reflection of my career as an artist. It sometimes can bring me to some dark spaces for some time, but I always seem to pull myself out of those corners. Then I am lead into some future planning and excitement. Thats where I am now. My journaling and space to think and plan is paying off. My vision is returning to me and just when I needed it the most. You are going to see me stretching as an artist in the coming months and creating some work that ties on many of our heart strings. I hope so anyways.
In other ways, I have been keeping busy by getting my studio set up both physically and electronically. And in the last few weeks, I have been focusing primarily on creating some new works for a show I am having at Slates Restaurant with a reception planned for Sunday, February 12th from 5 - 7 PM. I have shared some pictures with you here including my studio view on a cold winter day, an artist book of the snow queen, paintings in process and more. Enjoy! Also, I have attached here the press release for my show at Slates - and see you there PLUS the same evening you can also walk one block north and see my studio. The doors are open! Come on by. "My staff" will be at my studio to greet you while I am down at Slates, and the party can end down at my studio... Also, if you have been considering purchasing an original painting of mine, here's an extra incentive, 10% of profits will benefit the National Breast Cancer Foundation. See you in a couple of weeks at an art night out in Hallowell!
HALLOWELL ARTIST EXHIBITS “COLLECTIONS”
AT SLATES RESTAURANT
AND OPENS STUDIO DOORS IN ONE NIGHT OF ART
Event to Partially Benefit the National Breast Cancer Foundation
HALLOWELL, MAINE – On Sunday, February 12th from 5 – 7 PM Hallowell Artist Hélène Farrar will share her new studio space and business “Hélène Farrar Art” to coincide with her artist reception for “Collections” at Slates Restaurant. Located only a half block north of Slates, visitors have the unique opportunity to see the artist’s working studio as well have a viewing her works at Slates Restaurant.
Hélène Farrar Art is a new creative space in downtown Hallowell. Hélène Farrar Art houses the working artist studio of Hélène Farrar plus a community based studio where children and adults may participate in: regularly scheduled art lessons and classes taught by a professional artists and educators, specialized weekend workshops and evening classes, and borrow art books and artistic sources from an extensive art library. These educational opportunities operate under “Catch the Artbug with Hélène Farrar Art” FMI www.catchtheartbug.blogspot.com
“Slates has special meaning to me. It was only natural to open the doors to my studio for friends and fans of my local community to celebrate with me the same night, ” states Farrar. “I’ve put together a special sampling of my works for this event including works from travel journal paintings of Northern Italy and Southwest England, plus new pieces from my Birdworks, and groupings of mixed media pieces using abandoned photographs.”
Ten percent of sales profits from both venues will benefit the National Breast Cancer Foundation. The organization is meaningful to Farrar, as she lost her mother to breast cancer six years ago. Utilizing her art as a vehicle, she is planning a series of opportunities to raise breast cancer awareness and funding this year.
Farrar has taught and worked in the visual arts for fifteen years while actively exhibiting in commercial, nonprofit and university galleries in New England and England. Farrar has a Masters of Fine Art Degree in Interdisciplinary Arts from Goddard College in Vermont, and a Bachelors of Art from University of Maine with concentrations in painting and printmaking. Her work has been exhibited widely in Maine and has been accepted into regional and international juried exhibitions featuring her encaustics and oil works. The Flat Iron Gallery in Portland, the Three Graces Gallery in New Hampshire currently represent her and you can find her Birdworks series in Bessie’s Farm Goods in Freeport, Maine. www.helenefarrar.com
