Helene went to art school for a month when she was nine years old. Thereafter, since art is a difficult life to pursue, she trained for a career as a teacher of language and literature. Helene continued to draw, more and more actively, in pencil, charcoal, pen and ink, and pastel. Finally in 1997, she took classes in oil painting, with two excellent teachers, Jim Smyth and Brigitte Curt. I want to go on being a painter.
Painting opens one's eyes to color and beauty.
It makes one like the world more, even part of it may have once seemed ugly. Painting makes me want to live.