Helen Utsal

A Canadian artist living and working in the Comox Valley, Vancouver Island, Helen Utsal works with acrylics, oil paints, wax and other materials to create paintings with depth and colour. Her large-scale paintings are in private collections and galleries throughout British Columbia, Canada.

Often large in scale, Utsal’s compositions come together with luscious layers of foils, paints, wax, sand or other materials. Fat strokes of paint laid against smooth shiny, metallic surfaces pick up the changing light of the room, and make the painting’s surface just as absorbing and delightful as the picture.