Leonora/Leonardo IX Painting

Henriette Hellstern was born in Aarhus, Denmark 1979. She grew up on the country side at the base of the Mols Mountains in Denmark. The rough nature and fresh air, fields, trees and the ocean were places she went to contemplate and enjoy. She was accepted to Funen Art Academy in 2006 and graduated her MFA in 2011 with a large series of expressionistic portraits called Sexualities. Now she lives and works in Copenhagen. Henriette Hellstern work was evolved from being very abstract to more and more figurative over time, but always with a very direct honest approach. "I want the audience to connect with my artworks, and by being able to see the strokes and splashes we get a language with no words, where the image can take us into new adventures", she says. She has won several International art prizes and exhibited in San Francisco, New York, Vilnius, Athens and Brisbane to name a few. Latest she has been in a self chosen isolation in her Copenhagen studio, actually before Corona, where she has started a series that deals with nature taking revenge.