Helen Shafer Garcia is a painter, mixed media, found object and assemblage artist and award winning illustrator. Her whimsical style shows a love for living creatively with a studio filled to the brim with found objects! She’s currently working with watercolor, pastel and mixed media creating contemporary images on paper along with a series of Icon folklore triptychs with wood, watermedia and found object construction.
Helen’s watercolor illustrations have graced the cover brochures, garden articles and advertisements of numerous international resorts and magazines for more than 22 years. Awards include four San Diego Press Club First Place Awards of Excellence in Illustration for San Diego Home/Garden Lifestyles Magazine. Her first article for Cloth, Paper, Scissors “Collage in Color” EMag was published in Fall 2011.
Helen holds a BA degree in Fine Arts and currently teaches college level watercolor and acrylic painting. She also teaches Watercolor and Mixed Media workshops internationally and across the US.