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Name: Helen Rowles
Bio: Helen
Norsigian Rowles was born in East St. Louis, Illinois, to first generation
American parents of Armenian descent. Her Armenian cultural roots both shaped
and influenced her childhood. Helen's mother was an artist and the St. Louis
Art Museum was a frequent outing for the family, just across the Mississippi
River. The first major exhibit Helen saw as a child was a retrospective showing
of Van Gogh's paintings that has remained clear in her mind to this day.
Helen received a BFA
from Arizona State University in 1983. Through college she painted scenery for
The Lyric Opera Theatre and participated in several group showings. Helen was
awarded a Board of Regents scholarship based on her portfolio and after
graduating, she worked as an interior designer, and as a freelance artist
painting and drawing portraits, illustrations, and murals. Helen received her
MA (Ed) from the University of Phoenix in 2008 and currently enjoys teaching
studio art classes to adults at the Mesa Arts Center.
Helen had her first
solo exhibition in 2002 at the Armenian Cultural Center in Scottsdale, and has
exhibited consistently since then. She has one numerous awards including
Daughters of the American Revolution Outstanding Achievement in the Arts Award,
in 2013. She is a member of the Colored Pencil Society of America, the
Arizona Art Alliance, the Mesa Art League, the East Valley Artists Guild, and
the Arizona Pastel Association.
Medium: Pastel;
pencil on wood; graphite
Subjects: Varied –
see Gallery
Style:
Representational, colorist.
Navigation: Not a
difficult site to navigate, although there is inevitably some overlap in the
galleries, which all remain accessible from any page.
Gallery: In my
world; Pastel; Scarves of Heaven; Figurative; Still Life; Graphite; Landscape;
Animals.
Image View: Thumbnails enlarge in a viewer, where they
are labelled; they may not be downloaded.
Hollywood is 18 x 24 ins.
Demo: Yes,
look under Technique.
Blog: No
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