Opening is Friday, November 4th at the Flat Iron Gallery in Portland!

Farrar states, “Whenever I travel, I give myself assignments. The assignments are immersed in my desire to remember a place. If I draw or paint where I am, it locks into my memory. When I return home and start the finished work, I’ll also impose limits too so that the works are connected by the physical direction I took or the snapshots in my mind I wanted to select for my

Hélène Farrar’s “From Across the Sea: Journal Paintings of England and Italy" are a sampling of works created in 2010 and 2011 in response to travels to England’s southwest regions and Italy’s Lake Como areas. The imagery was developed through a combination of photography, sketchbook drawings and journaling. The journal paintings are not only physical records of these places but Farrar’s response to the landscape in forms of shape, form, and color’s response to light.

memory.” The works in this exhibition are a part of a larger body of artworks still in process.