Helene Leane

Helene Leane’s multilayered monotypes in gouache are a calming blend of texture, color and form imbued with a distinctly meditative quality. Working in a technique she has developed using gouache, stencil, rice paper and gelatin plate on 4 x 6” paper, each careful form is intricately woven into a larger composition whose full impact is slow to emerge. Through her skilful use of texture, line and pattern, Leane’s tawny imprints suggest the markings of animals, a dulcet hymn, a craggy mountaintop or an impassive and shadowy landscape. Paroxysms of color and texture are seen through a sapient and frosty lens. These modestly sized works on paper function as storehouses of unconscious energy, the markings of Leane’s own flourishing spiritual topography.

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