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Arline Helm
callmearline@netzero.net
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Arline Helm was born and raised in Los Angeles. During high school, she decided she wanted to become a commercial artist and after graduation attended what is now L.A. Trade Tech where she completed the commercial art course. Her first full time job was a retail illustrator for Thrifty Drug Stores.
In 2001, after retiring from 55 years of doing commercial art for advertising, Arline found time to go back to the “fun stuff’ and enrolled in a class for sketching and drawing, activities that she had always loved since childhood. During the second summer, her teacher held a short five week class of introduction to watercolor. This was the start of a love affair with watercolor and Arline then enrolled in as many classes as she could find (there weren’t too many) in order to improve her skills and further her interest in watercolor painting. Unable to find a beginner’s course in watercolors for a couple of years she plugged away on her own, taking classes that were over her head.
She took classes at Barnsdall Art Center, Glendale College and at the Creative Art Center in Burbank. She joined art organizations and discovered workshops and meetings with demos by talented artists. In 2003 she entered some work in a local art show and won an award which fired up her enthusiasm even more. She enjoys taking two or three classes a week plus workshops, where she continues to refine her artistic talent. She has shown her work in numerous shows and has won several awards. Her first solo exhibition was in 2007.
Arline is a member of the California Art Club, the Pasadena Society of Artists, Burbank Art Association, Fine Arts Federation of Burbank, Valley Watercolor Society, Brand Library Associates and Women Painters West.
A number of people have told me that many of my paintings give them a feeling of peace and serenity. I guess that might be because while I’m painting, I feel completely content and totally at peace with the world and everything around me. I love the peace and quiet of the countryside, away from the city with the noise and over-population, and I so enjoy being outside painting landscapes. I wish I could travel more frequently as I especially love New Mexico, northern Arizona and our many beautiful places in California. Many of my paintings are from my own snapshots. One of my former teachers used to ask me what I felt when I was at the place where I took the photo. Nearly always it was a feeling of peace and awe at the beauty of nature, always with the knowledge that only God could create such beauty.”
Exhibitions 2010
2010 "Score VIII" at VIVA Gallery, Sherman Oaks, CA
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* None of the artworks may be copied or reproduced without the written permission of the Artist