Helen Canetta

My creativity often leads me to the cliff’s edge that sits between figurative and non-figurative abstract expression, luring me back and forth across this great divide on my artistic journey.
Abstract painting is the art form which speaks to me the loudest. It is also the most intuitive art form to explore and render the complexity and contradictions of human emotions. It abides by no rules and stands alone, allowing anything to spring to life. Abstract art leads the viewers and painters on a thrilling path of discovery where the rational mind no longer dictates how things are or should be and where everything is palpable and resonates, if only we allow ourselves the freedom to stop thinking.
Of French and Hungarian origin, I spent my childhood outside of Paris, France until I moved to America in my late teens. A self-taught artist who started as a pencil drawing enthusiast before experimenting with abstract collage, I am today an acrylic painter residing in the Boston, Massachusetts area in the USA. Texture has become a key element to my work. It is the can’t-do-without, “beat of the song” and is a key element in setting the tone and mood of my work and giving it grit. 

My greatest artistic influences incude Master such as Egon Schiele, Pablo Picasso, Jackson Pollock, Willem De Kooning, Kees van Dongen, Marc Chagall as well as contemporary maestro German sculptor and painter Anselm Kiefer for their bold and audacious vision.

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