Sue Helmot is a contemporary Australian landscape artist. Her paintings capture the essence of the Australian landscape.
Whatever place the artists finds herself in, she seeks to represent peaceful encounters that are conscious of the ever-changing light, texture and colour around her.
Sue Helmot is a contemporary Australian landscape artist. Her paintings capture the essence of the Australian landscape.
For over a decade Sue has been based in the Gascoyne region of Western Australia, which has served as the primary source of inspiration behind her current body of work. Based on profound personal interactions with nature, the artist depicts intimate portraits of her surrounding environment.
With a diverse career in the arts spanning 40 years, Sue’s love of paint was reignited after relocating to a remote outback town. Sue was taken by the extraordinary beauty of the landscape. Vast desert claypans and dusky foothills of Kennedy Range providing idyllic natural subjects to paint.
Developing a deep respect for the land, the artist’s immersive creative process sees her spend extended periods of time on location, where the nuances of the land are documented in vivid colour studies. Back in her studio, she draws on memories and sensory feelings to convey the landscape and the atmosphere of the moment – imbuing her work with the essence of the experience itself.
Painting is how I express my curiosity and desire to interact with the land. My love of colour and light seems synonymous with the Australian bush. I can’t help but be moved by its beauty. I am passionate about capturing the spirit of a moment and place in paint.
My studio is the keeper of an intimate collection of memories from my experiences in the bush.
Colour and field studies that I make in the landscape are pasted all over my studio walls. As I work on new landscape paintings it’s as though I’m back in that place, in that moment. I can almost feel the sun on my back and soft red dirt in my boots.
Perched on a rock, watching light shift across the landscape is where I feel most inspired. As a landscape artist I feel instinctively attracted to beautiful colour harmonies and luminous light that I see in the Australian bush. The feeling is so deep that it makes my skin tingle. My constant interactions with the bush give me endless material for the creation of new work.
