About

Helena

Born in Washington D.C., I am a Mexican/Spanish/Peruvian artist who has lived in a few countries since leaving the United States. I spent part of my childhood in Australia and in Peru, and moved to Mexico City for my teenage years. After eleven years, I decided to escape the pollution and chaos and moved to

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Paintings

  • New begginings

    New Begginings, 2019

    Drawings
  • Playing with Fire, 2020

    Paintings
  • Orb Creator, 2017

    Paintings
  • Spirit, 2017

    Paintings
  • Self Portrait, 2017

    Paintings
  • Self Portait in Portugal, 2016

    Paintings
  • Warrior, 2016

    Paintings
  • Into the Door, 2016

    Paintings
  • Mother, 2016

    Paintings
  • Catrina in The Netherlands, 2015

    Paintings
  • The Food Giver, 2015

    Paintings
  • Divine Mountain, 2015

    Paintings
  • Sacred Tree, 2015

    Paintings
  • The Sacred Temple, 2015

    Paintings
  • The Worlds Within, 2015

    Paintings
  • Dyptic Creatures, 2015

    Paintings
  • Goddess and Protector, 2014

    Paintings
  • Safe Journey, 2014

    Paintings
  • Spiral’s Duality, 2014

    Paintings
  • Caminito a la Ofrenda, 2014.

    Paintings
  • Boot, 2012

    Paintings
  • Ritual, 2013

    Paintings
  • Fruit, 2011

    Paintings
  • Medula, 2010

    Paintings
  • Women Who Run With the Wolves, 2010

    Paintings
  • Sister Spoon, 2010

    Paintings

Blog

Painting exhibition, February, 2018

On February, 2018, I had my third solo exhibition at the Dokhuis Galerie, in Amsterdam. My show consisted in a series of paintings. From watercolours, inks, acrylics to oils. All of them with a similar theme, representing mother nature with symbolisms that were used in ancient times during the Paleolithic and Neolithic period. From spirals,

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Amsterdam International Life Drawing Society

In 2014, I joined a life drawing group. The new organizer was a young woman who came from the Ukraine, she was just 19 years old. Previously she studied at the art academy in Kiev, her studies were completely academic, and her name is Julia Filament. I started to attend to many sessions to practice

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Mirrors of the Spirit, 2010

When I arrived to The Netherlands in 2010, I was lucky to have my first exhibition. It was very well organized. All the paintings were created on my last year living in Mexico. So, I painted a series of watercolours, many of them were portraits of humans and also a couple of animals, representing each

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