Helen S. Cohen

ARTIST | MIXED MEDIA

My studio is a refuge where I delight in the immediacy and messy, visceral process of making marks – working with color, line and form using a variety of media and methods. Each composition takes shape through a kind of spontaneous call and response – an intimate conversation between the canvas and the materials I work into it: bold and opaque shapes and colors; drips and watery washes; scribbles and scratches; fragments of discarded paintings; ticket stubs, receipts, messages left on the kitchen counter as well as written words and graphic elements taken from journals, sketchbooks and the detritus of daily life.