"Tango" Drawing

Helen DeRamus’ career as an artist and mentor spans more than thirty-five years. Her exhibits encompass more than a hundred collective, solo, invitational and juried exhibits including the Montgomery Museum, Thomas Deans Fine Art, Shorter College, 621 Gallery, the Atlanta Women's Foundation and the Artists Space in New York City. Her paintings have appeared in numerous publications including “Better Homes & Gardens” and “Cooking Light” magazines. Ms. DeRamus is a member of the Fulton County Artists Registry in painting and photography. She is listed in the CLARA database registry of the National Museum of Women in the Arts and the Women Artists Archive Special Collection at Sonoma State University. Helen's work is in corporate, private, and public collections throughout the United States. The collections include: Federal Home Loan Bank of Atlanta, Georgia State Perimeter College, North Georgia College and State University, The ART Station, the Ben Hill-Fitzgerald County Library, the Women's Center at Kennestone Hospital, the Atlanta Women's Foundation in Atlanta, Georgia, and Livingston College at Rutgers University in New Jersey and the Fulton County Arts Council collection.. She earned a B.A. degree in art history and history from Emory University and completed further studies at North Carolina State University, the Southeastern Center for Photographic Arts, with New York art director and photographer the late Art Kane, and with Gerald Samuels at the Art Center of Northern New Jersey. She also studied with Joseph Perrin internationally known for his color field paintings and Emeritus Head Professor of the Visual Arts Department of Georgia State University. The following galleries represent Ms. DeRamus’ artwork: TEW Galleries in Atlanta, Robert Kent Galleries in Marietta and Art Alley in Homewood, Alabama and ROAN & BLACK Gallery in Saugatuck, Michigan Helen's studio is located in the Artisan Resource Center in Marietta, Georgia. She mentors private art students of all ages and conducts art workshops and demonstrations of the encaustic painting, as well as other mixed media painting and drawing techniques in her studio as well as in college, universities, and other art venues.