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Helena Buckinx (°1970, in Schoten near Antwerp) makes her first painting at the age of 16 on a blue summer holiday. With some old gouache paint and brushes, which belonged to her mother, she makes this painting on canvas. From then onwards she starts to make paintings during every school holiday. It is like an alternative to a diary to her. She draws what she lives and what she dreams of…
After two years she gets a set of oil colours from her father. This is the real start. Genuine, vivid colours that are there to last on the canvas unlike the gouache that fades away after a couple of years.

Through the use of oil colours, Helena’s love for true colours is even more characterized in her art work.

Her paintings show a set of naïve-painted figures in an almost surreal world. A world where the sky is too blue and the grass too green to be true. It’s her dream world. The change of gouache to oil does not influence the main subjects. Her paintings are still like a diary to her.

In the early nineties, Helena goes ‘abstract’. Although she considers this work much less personal than her figurative work, she enjoys the sole combining of colours on canvas as well. Colours only! Colours rule!

She continues to do both styles. The main evolution in her work is that she made some kind of collages in her early years, whereas her figurative work now shows one subject per painting.