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Highlights 2021
Overall Winner Gascoyne Art Awards I was absolutely thrilled and honoured to be awarded Overall Winner of the Gascoyne Art Awards in August 2021 for my painting “Morning Glow In Kennedy Range” (featured below). An acquisitive prize, this painting is now held in the public collection of major sponsor Horizon Power. Works Acquired for Public…
Peaceful Time Painting in Kennedy Range National Park
Hi Everyone, I’m sharing a few pics from our trip to the magnificent Kenney Range National Park last weekend. Once we were given the green light to travel within our region I was keen to escape to this remote slice of wilderness to slow down and become immersed in nature with Scott and my paints.…
New Collection of Tiny Landscape Paintings
Hi everyone, I hope that you are all keeping well and happy during this topsy-turvy time. It’s funny how many of us are looking at things differently now. We are taking on new projects to refresh our gardens and homes which even more than ever have become our sanctuary. In the studio I have started…
Sue Helmot Open Studio – this weekend!
I’m excited to fling open my studio door this coming weekend and welcome you to pop in for a chat and a peak at my busy little creative space. Hanging on my studio walls are a selection of new works including Nightfall and small works on paper inspired by our stunning Gascoyne landscape, along with a few…
Up in Lights at Yagan Square Perth City
I have just received these photos and would like to share them with you. They feature another three of my paintings currently being screened on the Yagan Square Digital Tower in Perth City. The digital tower is seen by over 60,000 people each day! It’s such a dynamic way to bring art to the public…
My Latest Exhibition at Yagan Square Perth
I am so excited to announce that a number of my paintings have been selected to be screened on the digital tower at Yagan Square in Perth city over the coming months. The digital tower is seen by 60,000 people each day! I was treated to a special viewing of my artworks during twilight this…
Ripe Magazine Feature – September 2019
Thrilled to have my recent work featured in the latest issue of Ripe, a monthly horticulture and lifestyle magazine published by Farm Weekly, WA’s biggest rural newspaper. You can imagine my surprise when I popped up on the front cover! Click here to read the story: http://specialpubs.austcommunitymedia.com.au/farm_weekly/ripeseptember2019/ Thank you to Mollie Tracey and the team…
ABC Mornings Interview August 2019
INTRO KELLY GUDGEON: Have you ever seen a mango flowers in bloom? Or been up close and personal with a beekeeper? Neither had Carnarvon artist Sue Helmot… that was until she took on a two year stint as an artist in residence for the Gascoyne Food Council. As part of her residency, Sue sat amongst…
ABC Breakfast Interview – 2019
This outback artist captures rural food production on canvas after immersing herself watching local agriculture. Click here to listen to the interview on abc.net.au