Helena Clare Pittman                    Painting & Illustration

 

Helena Clare Pittman writes: "Color perception and color behavior has become increasingly important to me as I paint. I am also fascinated by rows of still life objects and the spaces that appear between each object. For this reason I find a kinship in the Italian artist, Georgio Mirandi. The Impressionist revelation of color and light strongly influences my work. Seurat's color studies and conte crayon drawings are among my obsessions. More and more, as I paint, I hold in my mind the illusive effects of Seurat’s color and values. Observation from life, the impact of color, edges and light on the eye is a road into another dimension, a place of endless discovery. It is a realm of deep seeing that I find to be both spiritual and ecstatic."

 

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Helena Clare Pittman has been an artist since childhood. She majored in art in Junior High and High School, and began painting seriously at the age of fourteen.

She majored in Painting at Pratt Institute, in Brooklyn, New York, and was awarded her Bachelors of Fine Art degree there. She took her Masters of Arts at Antioch, in Painting, Writing and Education.

Helena has taught Color, Illustration and Drawing at The Parsons School of Design; Design, Drawing and Life Drawing at The State University of New York at Farmingdale; Writing and Classroom Methods at The City University of New York, Queens College School of Graduate Education; Painting, Drawing and Illustration at The Nassau County Museum of Art. She has also taught both children and adults at the Art League of Long Island, as well as working as an Author/Illustrator in Residence in many public and private schools. Helena has published 17 books for children, most notably "A Grain of Rice", and "The Gift of the Willows".