BIOGRAPHY

An award-winning artist, Helen Dannelly is a trained painter and sculptor who has been exhibiting and teaching for decades. Originally from California, she studied photorealistic painting with famed San Francisco Bay Area artists Robert Bechtle and Richard McLean. She then studied sculpture, including bronze casting, at the University of Minnesota.

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She is the proud Co-Founder of Catalyst Art Lab, an online artists' membership community and online art school. She also is Curator at the Forshey Gallery in downtown Chicago. She is the creator and facilitator of the international "Reboot Retreats for Creatives" to help overwhelmed artists pause, reflect and recalibrate their creative goals.  A Golden Artist Educator, Silver Brush Educator and an R&F Trained Advanced Encaustic Instructor, Helen has taught workshops in France, Italy, Hawaii, Monterey, California and at PaintSpace NOLA in New Orleans, LA.

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Her work has been shown at Slate Contemporary in Oakland, CA, Sanchez Art Center in Pacifica, CA, Conrad Wilde Gallery, in Tucson, AZ, Adam Peck Gallery and Julie Heller Gallery in Provincetown, MA, Truro Center for the Arts at Castle Hill, Truro, MA, Kolman & Pryor Gallery in Minneapolis, MN, Phipps Center for the Arts in Hudson, WI, Christopher Art Gallery, ARC Gallery, Stola Contemporary Art, Bridgeport Art Center and Zhou B Art Center all in Chicago. In 2023, her work was one of just 140 out of over 1200 submissions selected for the First International Biennial Exhibition at the Ballinglen Arts Museum in County Mayo, Ireland.

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Her work can currently be purchased through Alma Art + Interiors and Addington Gallery in Chicago, IL.