Helene Farrar

Materials: encaustic Bio: Hélène Farrar has taught and worked in the visual arts for twenty years while actively exhibiting in commercial, nonprofit and university galleries in New England, New York City, Pennsylvania, Italy, and England. Farrar has a BA in Studio Art from the University of Maine and a Masters of Fine Art Degree in Interdisciplinary Arts from Goddard College in Vermont. Hélène currently owns and operates her own private art school in Maine out of her “Farmhouse” studio, where she holds varied workshops and classes. Her paintings have most recently been accepted into curated exhibits at the Cape Cod Community College, Fuller Craft Museum, the Saco Museum, the University of New England Art Gallery, and Twiggs Gallery in New Hampshire. Farrar is represented by Archipelago Fine Arts in Rockland, and the Center for Maine Craft in West Gardiner. Her work as an educator has brought her across the state of Maine including the Farnsworth Art Museum, Haystack Mountain School of Crafts, Waterfall Arts, and the Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens. Her teaching has also brought her as far as Sedona, Arizona, the International Encaustics Conference in Provincetown, Massachusetts, and an art retreat in Tuscany, Italy. Hélène is the President of New England Wax.