Helsen begins each new painting by carefully mixing and diluting her acrylic paints
Inspired by Umberto Boccioni's States of Mind Series
Her textured and painterly surfaces blend areas of apparent randomness where the paint has been splashed or dripped with areas of precision
blending automatic drawing
and she has been featured on blogs
Color Trac #24 Greet Helsen Helsen begins each new paintingCritics have connected Baribeau to a range of aesthetic positions, including everything from Abstract Expressionism and Pop Art to the 19th century Hudson River School, and compared him variously to the likes of Robert Rauschenberg, Joan Mitchell, Cy Twombly, and Willem de Kooning. In truth, Baribeau employs a distinctive aesthetic voice that is personal and instantly recognizable, despite its multiplicity. His visual world is one where primordial,