front cover of JAM!

Helen Ansell - Thursday, July 01, 2010

JAM is a really cool, pocket sized free independent monthly magazine based in Geraldton (go Geraldton!) and distributed around much of the mid west of Western Australia, featuring local events, stories gig guides and much more... I am very proud to have one of my latest pieces featured on their July front cover!!



For more info visit their website at www.smithandbrown.com.au or become a fan on facebook here www.facebook.com/JAM.magazine

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Five Aspects

Helen Ansell - Friday, June 11, 2010

The Monsoon Gallery is an amazing old building with loads of character. It was built in 1915 for Ancell Clement Gregory who was successful in the pearling industry and a prominent figure in Broome’s public and social life. The house was constructed by carpenter and shipbuilder  Hori Gorokitchi and features exposed timber framing of the traditional Japanese carpentry method of Shinkabe. In the 1980’s the house was used as a studio by renowned Australian artist Sidney Nolan – and his paintings of the area increased public knowledge of Broome… I really enjoyed seeing my work in such a different space - here are some pics for you:












This is the view outside the gallery across the road to the ocean and the mangroves


Thanks so much to everyone in Broome who came along to the opening and were just so friendly and welcoming! I am excited to come back and take up some offers from locals to go out fishing with them next time :) Here are some pics of the night











This is an article that was featured in the Broome Advertiser


A big thanks to Helen O'Rouke and Simon at the Monsoon Gallery for organising such a great night. I really enjoyed meeting the other artists of the night too (whose work is also featured on the Monsoon Gallery website)
 I sure hope I can come back and spend some more time in sunny Broome again!!
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pieces of pattern

Helen Ansell - Thursday, April 22, 2010

Here are some small canvases that were comissioned by the Courthouse Gallery in Port Hedland
a series entitled "Pieces of Pattern".
On sale from 24th April to 23rd June

     

        

     

     

     








   

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Prison Art

Helen Ansell - Wednesday, April 21, 2010

For the last two years I have been working with the artists at Greenough regional Prison culminating in an exhibition opening at the Courthouse Gallery in Port hedland this Friday 23rd April and running till 23rd June.

Here are some pics of some of the guys work:

Tjukurba Kanyininpa (Holding the stories)

"We got him. We all got him. Holding the stories. We got the dreamtime. No matter what language, we still got one story. Everywhere you go, we got that. All us now, we got a dreaming. Holding the stories, we got the stories."









 

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Latest Spinifex Hill Artist pics

Helen Ansell - Monday, April 12, 2010

The work I've been doing up with the Spinifex Hill Artists is still going strong after two years now. We've just had an influx of new members - some of the old ladies from HAC (Home and Community Care) who have been doing some LOVELY work - here are some pics for you











for more information check out their blog here http://spinifexhillartists.tumblr.com/

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upcoming exhibition at Monsoon Gallery Broome

Helen Ansell - Sunday, April 04, 2010

I am very excited to be included in an upcoming exhibition in the prestigious Monsoon Gallery in Broome alongside Judy Prosser, Clifford Bayly, Hiromi Ashlin and Daniel Hutching - artists both local and interstate providing their own interpretation of the Kimberley and it's people.

The exhibition runs from 10 - 20 June and will be online May 27th at www.monsoongallery.com.au

Better get back to painting!!


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I love Etsy

Helen Ansell - Friday, January 22, 2010

For those of you not yet familiar with Esty (warning - very addictive) it is an online community of buyers and sellers of everything handmade. Seriously you can buy all kinds of homemade things on there - it's gorgeous. The Etsy community spans the globe with buyers and sellers coming from over 150 countries and sellers number in the hundreds of thousands.
I was very proud to have been selected as one of a few Australian artists to have been featured on their blog this week (which has between 3000 and 20,000 readers daily) check it out:

www.etsy.com/storque/spotlight/etsy-finds-from-a-land-down-under-6818/

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Must run in the family

Helen Ansell - Saturday, January 09, 2010

Here is a photo of the latest painting I have just finished - underneath an old painting done by my great great great aunt Henrietta Gulliver, a still life and landscape painter in Melbourne (1866 - 1945).  She was at one time President of the Women's Art Club (formed in 1902 and today known as the Melbourne Society of Women Painters and Sculptors) and one of the original members of Twenty Melbourne Painters (formed in 1918) and who has letters in the National Library of Australia and painted with the likes of Arthur Streeton!! Wonder what she would think of art these days...

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Gran's Roses

Helen Ansell - Wednesday, January 06, 2010

So my LUSH exhibition was a great success with lots of sales (24 out of 34 not bad for a recession!) and lots of great feedback. A special thanks to the people who took the time to write nice feedback to me through my website - very much appreciated!!
I'm currently having a well deserved break with my 92 year old Grandmother in Victoria for a few weeks. We're having a lovely time together - lots of chats and cups of tea. And I'm back into painting again - this time I've been inspired by Gran's roses :)
Hope you had a great break too!


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