Helle Borg Hansen
As a painter, I have been a professional since 2008 and after that I supplemented the paintings with sculptures in both bronze and stoneware. My paintings are mainly painted in oil on canvas with oil colours, which I have produced myself from pure color pigments and linseed oil.
Stylistically, I find myself in a mixture of non-figurative and figurative, as all paintings start with abstract shapes and colors. Then I ad the motifs according to the motto: How little is needed for it to be there?
The motifs are mainly dancers - female flamenco dancers, wild animals and horses. It is movement, energy and body language that I work with with the dancers and the horses, while with the horses and the wild animals I also focus on the eyes.
In my sculptures it is the same theme as in the painted dancers. In addition, I have some humorous teddy bears in bronze with movement and mood.
And what do I want with my paintings?
The fact that I paint female flamenco dancers is because I am a flamenco dancer myself. I want to maintain the strong feminine energy and strength inherent in flamenco on the canvas and in the sculpture. When I paint or model, I feel the movement and balance in my own body, and it is as if they are already dancing at the very beginning of the process. My works are an empowerment of the feminine energy in a world where most of those who control it wear suits.
What do I want with my animal paintings?
Most of the wild animals in my paintings look directly at you and follow you with their eyes. With this look, I want to give them a voice, where they can become insistent. Where they can insist, that we give them the space they need. None of them can be dispensed with in the balance of nature, and we must soon understand, that they have the same right to their existence as we humans have. We cannot continue to drum up nature and think that we have special status.
My paintings have a lifetime guarantee, as I can vouch for the materials. Within one year of purchase/distribution, you can exchange one painting for another.
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