Original Art

Helen works in the traditional printmaking process known as intaglio.

She combines techniques to create images on multiple copperplates, handwiped and handprinted.

The resulting works are uniquely layered and richly textured (see illustrations from A Child's Enchanted Garden and Berkeley to the Barnyard).

A selection of original prints are available; please contact Helen for more information.

'The printmaker is a most peculiar being. He delights in deferred gratification and in doing what does not come naturally. He prefers the difficult and arduous approach to expression. He takes pleasure in working backward or in opposites. The gesture that produces a line of force moving to the right prints to the left and vice versa; a deeply engraved trench in a copper plate prints as a raised line,while a raised line on a plate prints as a depression in the paper. Left is right. Right is left. Backward is forward. The printmaker, peculiar as he is, must see at least two sides to every question.'

Jules Heller, Printmaking Today: A Studio Handbook