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Monday, April 14, 2008

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Helen N. Rowles
Helen Norsigian Rowles was born in East St. Louis, Illinois, to first generation American parents of Armenian descent. Her Armenian cultural roots both shaped and influenced her childhood. Helen’s mother was an artist who gave her children access to the arts at an early age. The magnificent St. Louis Art Museum was a frequent trip across the Mississippi River for the family. The first major exhibit that Helen saw as a child was a retrospective showing of Van Gogh’s paintings that has remained clear in her mind to this day.
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-Helen received a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Arizona State University graduating in 1983. Through college she painted scenery for The Lyric Opera Theater and participated in several group showings. Helen was awarded a Board of Regents scholarship based on her portfolio and after graduating, she worked as a freelance artist painting and drawing portraits, illustrations, murals and also worked as an interior designer.-Helen would have continued her tentative steps toward the kind of work she thought she wanted to do had fate not stepped in.After a bout with cancer in 2002, Helen began a series of drawings and painting entitled "Scarves of Heaven". During treatment, she eschewed scratchy wigs and replaced them with colorful bandanas and scarves. As an artist sitting in the oncology waiting room, the idea began for this series.

“I started thinking about how many people had gone through cancer before me. I’d sit in the doctor’s office and think about all the scarves that weren’t there anymore because their wearers had either gotten better or had died. I imagined that there must be many scarves in heaven."
It was in the doctor’s office waiting room that the Scarves of Heaven series began.In the following years, Helen has incorporated fabrics and patterns into her pieces as personifications for many every day objects.