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Helen O'Sullivan draws her inspiration for her paintings from deep within her inner self, where she explores myth, emotion & fantasy and she calls her work 'Soul Painting'.
To help her access her inner self she uses a technique known as 'Touch Drawing'; a technique she learned from the founder of the 'Centre of Touch Drawing' in America, Deborah Koff-Chapin.
This method involves laying tissue paper on to an 'inked' block board and then drawing on the back of the tissue paper with one's fingers. Whilst doing this, one journeys inwards, feeling and sensing their emotions and then drawing instinctively. The fingers and hands act as a direct link to what is happening within.
Whilst experimenting with this unique technique, she developed it further by pasting the tissue paper with the original inked image onto a board, which she could then develop further into a full painting using acrylic paints.
Helen is a native of Killarney, Co. Kerry in Ireland. In 1975 she moved to Sligo, where she studied art for 4 years in Sligo I.T., specialising in Fine Art. She returned to her roots and currently lives in Beaufort near Killarney, Co. Kerry, Ireland where she successfully works with groups and women's groups using her developed techniques to encourage the instinctive act of creativity and expression, which may have been dormant, bringing clarity to one's inner truth and a sense of self.
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