My journey into "Birdworks" started about fifteen years ago. I was sitting in a rental car in a New Mexico parking lot with my dying Mother. She pointed out the window, "Look at those birds. They are just so lovely. Here, give them my hamburger bun and let's just watch them."
As they swooped down for their dinner, their flying and fluttering forms forced a moment of quiet and observation in an otherwise intense and painful period in my life. And so my first paintings of birds inspired by that specific time had begun. I do informally bird watch and fondly visit nearby farms for inspiration. These paintings have grown into personal meditation through process, narratives from daily life, portraits, commentaries on life and relationships, and a generous slice of humor.
In 2013, Daniel Kany, Art Critic awarded Farrar “Juror’s Award” at the Harlow Gallery Annual Juried Show and wrote in regards to ‘White Pullet’, “ This piece combines sophisticated qualities of encaustic painting with object qualities both of the subject and the painting itself. It has a clear take on the figure / ground relationship and imbues its subject with a vital dynamism that, with playful irony, jumps back and forth between physical observation conceptual commentary. While this is an impressively strong and memorable image, it hints that painting as image is being left behind for sculptural craft as the vessel for ideas – after all: Beside the white chicken there are no ideas but in things.”
To check availability of work for purchase, email Helene at helene@helenefarrar.com
"Three Sparrows" 24 X 30 inches, encaustic on panel
"There She Is"
20 X 24 inches, Encaustic On Panel
Good Morning
20 X 20 inches
encaustic on round panel
"Looking"
8 X 10 inches, Encaustic On Panel
"Red Bird" 4 X 4 inches, encaustic on panel
Baby Crow
8 X 10 inches
encaustic on panel
Silly Guy
5 X 5 inches
encaustic on panel
White Pullet
20 x 30 inches
encaustic on panel
Turning Hen
10 X 10 inches
encaustic on panel
Turning Crow
9 X 12 inches
encaustic on panel
"Red Winged Blackbird" 12 X 12 inches, encaustic on panel
Little Pink Guy
5 X 5 inches
encaustic on panel
Rooster
5 X 5 inches
encaustic on panel
Introspective Chicken
14 X 14 inches
encaustic on panel
Flying Practive Study
8 X 8 inches
encaustic on panel
Pink Face
10 X 10 inches
encaustic on panel
Two Nocturnals
18 X 18 inches
encaustic on panel
Ridiculous
12 X 12 inches
encaustic on panel
Example of Painting Depths
What????!
10 X 10 inches
encaustic on panel
Hello! Good Mornin'!
1 X 3 Feet
encaustic on panel
Helene posing with a Hen
Crow
20 X 30 inches
encaustis on panel
Barn Owl, Evening Rest
14 X 14 inches, Encaustic On Panel
"Little Owl" 1.5 X 4 inches, Encaustic On Panel
Lunchtime
10 CX 10 inches , Encaustic On Panel
"On the Line" 18 X 22 inches, encaustic on panel
"Silly" 4 X 4 inches round, encaustic on panel
