Please join us on Monday, October 14th from 5-6pm to welcome our artist of the month, Helen Roy! It's time to unwind with a complementary glass of wine and see what Helen has been working on!
About Helen Roy:
Helen Roy is an artist and educator living in Westerly, Rhode Island who grew up in the beautiful Berkshires. As a self-taught artist she considers herself fortunate to have had the opportunity to fall in love with painting after 30 years as a Learning Specialist. Roy recognizes that the first reaction to visual art is what is seen, but she believes the most important response is how a painting makes the viewer feel. When you take a painting into your home or personal space you are bringing the energy you as an individual receive from the work.
The theme of Roy’s artwork paintings is A Celebration of Color. The hope being that a colorful vibrant painting can transform a down or dark emotion. Her palette is often dominated by the colors one observes watching the sun set over the ocean: blues, greens, yellows, corals, pinks and lavenders.
Roy’s mediums include acrylic, oil, cold wax & oil and mixed media. Some of her work consists of clean lines and geometric shapes, while other pieces are abstract seascapes or non-representational colorful creations. The artist tries to challenge expectations and perceptions by using balance, color, shapes, lines and a palette knife to encourage both movement and capture emotion. She often includes paintings in a diptych or triptych format that encourages the eye to flow along from one canvas to the next. Her work exists on both the surface and the body of the canvas.
Indoor and outdoor Mobiles are the latest adventure for Roy and are created in both abstract and representational form. They are constructed so they can take advantage of the principle of equilibrium and fly, flow and dance with the wind. Each free moving creation she has designed combining wood or metal, acrylic paint or Rustoleum paint, wires, fishing line and branches which results in the motion of the colorful vibrant abstract art floating through the moving air.
Roy Is a member at Artists’ Cooperative Gallery of Westerly, Mystic Art Museum and South County Art Association. In addition, Roy has combined her joy of teaching with her joy of creating and has been teaching painting classes in the area. She recently taught in Rhode Island at Artists’ Cooperative Gallery of Westerly, UNITED Theatre, Charlestown Recreation Center, and in Connecticut at Groton Library and Pawcatuck Neighborhood Center.
To learn more about Helen Roy visit her website at www.helenroygallery.com or Instagram @helenmroy.