Helen G Caldwell is a watercolour artist who specialises portraits and landschape painting. She loves to go 'en plein air' sketching anywhere at all; anything from indoor events and domestic schenes, to pristine landscapes and urban life. Her landscape paintings are often drawn from sketches on location.
She is also interested in landscape photography and astro photography and some recent paintings are the result of the latter. She loves to create works featuring the night landscape and sky, some drawn from her night photographs and some imagined. The drama and mystery of the night sky found in the inky light, dynamic movement and obscured form attract her.
Helen is a largely a self-taught artist and describes herself as a 'returning artist'. Though she did attend an art school in her youth from the age of 8 to 18 and painted then in oils and acrylics, she did not take her art education to a tertiary level. Instead she pursued further education and a career outside art. This is not to mean she left her abiding interest in art aside; she completed selected coursess at TAFE in a diploma of fine arts and took to screen printing and fabric art as hobbies.
In 2012 Helen decided to return to painting full time and took up her renew art journey in watercoloour. Her decision to attend a painting group run by Townsville Watercolour Group member Sally Grattidge soon lead to an invitation to join this invitation only art society in 2013. Helen says the cliche 'never looked back' so aptly describes her watercolour journey since 2013. Many workshops later with eminent watercolour artists such as Cherry Hood, Greg Allen, Michael Ferris and group, duet then her first solo exhibition in 2019, Helen describes her watercolour work as a joy, a privelige, an obsession and an endless discovery. | 
