Bulge 18 Ink For this project

For this project

Helsen begins each new painting by carefully mixing and diluting her acrylic paints

Her paintings are best described as abstract landscapes

Much like Helen Frankenthaler

The zones of color

Bulge 18 Ink For this projectThe threaded lines suggest a physical barrier that interrupts the shapes and stops them from connecting and at the same time a transparency is created that allows the viewer to enter through the lines onto the painted surface. The titles of each series can be interpreted as emotional, psychological and physical conditions. This piece from the series Bulge is a rhythmic vertical threaded pattern across a mononchromatic painted surface. The ebb and flow