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Helen Gwinn, New Mexico Artist
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Helen Gwinn is an artist living and working in New Mexico. Gwinn's art, expressed in watermedia, embossing and collage, reflects her life, including her love for the desert where she lives.
Helen Gwinn
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Above, the artist outside the National Academy of Art in New York City where one of her works was exhibited in the 175th Annual Exhibition.
Gwinn is well known for a concentration of art pieces, the "Envelope Series," inspired by her letter writing. The series now contains over 100 pieces and has developed a rich expressive life. The Envelope Series contains several mini-series including the fiber collage "Mailboxes," the stitched "Envelope Fetish Necklaces," the mixed media "Letter Boxes," and the embossed / watermedia / collages called "The Missives," and "The Notes."
Gwinn's most recent concentration of works has evolved from the now-completed Envelope Series. They are colorful, highly textured works of art she is calling her Cliff Gifts Series. The Cliff Gifts have a dimensionality that is new with the collaged portions being built up in successive layers. Most of the Cliff Gifts pieces contain packets or "gifts" which are folded and embellished before being secured into the composition. The packets contain, hidden inside, special gifts from the artist, inspired by the composition. Additional embellishments of rocks, fetishes, wire, twine, beads, trinkets, etc are often included.
She has designed a few exquisite pieces of jewelry that are cast in sterling silver. Her watermedia works have received awards in recent national juried exhibits.
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