Helen BARENTON artiste-peintre portraitiste
Painter
Whatever your project, it’s at the tip of my brushes!
Specializing in portraits, my artwork ranges from baroque, to realistic or even to psychedelic style.
Halfway between fauvism and figurative, I love spreading paint through colorful flattened effects, always guided by the will to break from the academic rules.
I only created my company in 2019, but as far as I can remember, I have always expressed the need to create, model, draw, paint, make the invisible visible and share my creations.
In addition to portraits, I am keen on working on other projects, such as narrative figuration, always conducted by the present time, and the desire to give free rein to my fancy.
From faithful to abstract portrait, from watercolor to oil or acrylics, from black and white to psychedelic hues, from single to multiple, order your own personal artwork!
International Contemporary Art Competition
1er prize The Big One
To end the year 2021 with a joyful artistic note, I am very exited to share with you my latest international prize. A fabulous reward which symbolizes my engagement in the animal cause, and brings highlights on my artwork.
My portraits
My portraits are made on the basis of a photograph or live. You can commission the portrait of any of your loved ones, from children, to friends, kids or grown-ups and even your favourite pet. Single or multiple portrait, classic or modern, black and white or colorful, choose the one that suits you the most!
Watercolor paints
In the form of sticks or pencils, soft pastel allows hyperrealistic portraits. I also use Panpastel, (pastel in pans) for its high covering potential and its rich pigments.
Watercolor paints
Mission Gold (Mijello) watercolor
Watercolor on Arches cotton paper. 31 * 41 - Mijello Mission Gold extra fine watercolors - renowned for their high lightfastness. Their high concentration of pigments allows fades while transparency, of incomparable fineness.
Sépia watercolor
Sepia watercolor on Arches cotton paper. 31 * 41 - Mijello Mission Gold extra fine watercolors - renowned for their high light-resilience pigments
Family watercolor
Whether individual or collective, watercolor immortalizes your loved ones or your moments of happiness. It is most often painted on cotton paper, but can also be achieved on a less conventional support, thanks to a particular treatment of the support.
Mission Gold (Mijello) watercolor
You love your pet? Have him/her painted!
For a romantic look, choose watercolor.
(egs greyhound)
For an hyper-realistic painting, I recommand oils
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Les mariés
aquarelle couleur
La maternité
aquarelle noir et blanc
Les séniors
aquarelle couleur
L'amitié
aquarelle sépia
Celebrities
Sépia watercolor paint
Watercolor paints
Oil, its shimmering hues, for a more real-than-life rendering.
I only use high quality pigments and extra-fine oils from Sennelier. Choose the size and the picture, I will do the rest and enhance it into a lively colorful painting.
(All my oils are made on linen canvas chassis).
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Marketing portrait
Whether you want to develop the marketing around the design of your brand, showcase your company logo, or expand the visibility of your products, opt for an artwork that will enhance your heritage. Declinable to infinity on any medium, artistic creation will offer you the most beautiful way to succeed.
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Pets
This oil on canvas was made on the basis of two photos, the first one, dealing with the main subject, and the second one, the background, for a unique outcome. All combinations are available.
This oil on canvas, midway between Fauvism and figurative, immortalizes the pet through a prism of shimmering colors.
Joseph-Balthazar Silvester (1971-1868)
This historic figure was painted from a lithograph (black and white); the creative process fully results in the colorization process (portrait in extra-fine oil).
Sublimate your best souvenirs
Sublimate your memories by giving them an artsy authenticity. Here, a revisited overexposed souvenir photo..
family
Based on one or more photos, get your family immortalized in a colorful and powerful portrait.
Children
From new-born babies to teenagers, get your child or grand-child immortalized on an oil canvas, for a lively portrait.
Acrylics
Acrylics , for a living work, I also realize colorful portraits, which will, I'm sure, enhance your interiors.
Acrylique sur toile 80*80cm peinte au couteau pour plus de modernité
Couples
You are considering to immortalize your moments of happiness (marriage, birth, birthdays, etc...) or simply the present times ? I create faithful classical portrait, but also, according to your desires, colorful portraits, or even, for the most daring, foolish ones!
5 -Pens
Graphite, Charcoal, colored pencils or dry pastel, drawing enables a large range of details for hyper-realistic portraits. I only only professionnal quality material for all my artwork, which allows my drawings and paintings to last forever.
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Colored Pencils
Graphite portrait
Graphite portrait
Charcoal portraits
Pencil portrait
Original picture
My animal watercolor paintings
My artwork develops and evolves according to seasons, to adorn with monochromatic or, on the contrary, ultra-pigmented and unexpected shades. I really like playing with lights and shadows, giving a modern character to pieces seemingly simple. Here are some of my late artworks created in my studio.
Biographie Helen BARENTON
Author of novels, painter, and sculptor, I am often asked what the common denominator of everything I do. However, if I like art in all its forms, creation is not only about imagination, it is also and above all, a very particular way of observing. The miracle of life is what inspires my work.
Beyond my strong desire to continually achieve a higher level of expertise and technical ability is my longing to describe my sincere interpretation of beauty. Hopefully through my painting I will not only express the surface level of what I observe but the more important soulful and emotional discoveries of my internal world.
My art practice is an extension of my ongoing journey to unearth the treasures of secret wisdom only found by delving into my emotional landscape. Many truths about our human spirit hide in our trauma shadows, my aim is to expose these and transform them into something beautiful. This allows my artistic vision to be both traditional and contemporary. This is through art that I fight indifference between men and that I propose new ways of seeing the world. Passionate about art, especially painting, I offer you an initiatory journey immersed in my world: discover my work, let your imagination twirl around my sculptures, free as air, in the meanders of my acrylics, lose yourself in the depths of my oils. In the confines of my watercolors. Dream the one that looks like you! Do not hesitate, it's here!
"Art is the shortest path from man to man"
André Malraux
My History
Contact me
Thanks for your interest! Feel free to ask question or to order your own project,
Helen BARENTON.
Reims, France
