Bill Helin Paintings

He also enjoys painting watercolors sketches silk screening and airbrushing.

Bill helin paintings. Sea to sky 4 original painted mural series 2008. His art has ranged from creating large wood projects such as the 40 foot ravensong canoe in 1993 and working on the world s largest totem pole in 1994 to the illustration of a range of children s books. Sea to sky 4 original painted mural series 2008. Painting watercolors sketches silk screening and airbrushing are among his favourite pastimes.

Paper canvas or glass. His artistry is largely self taught learning from books about new techniques such as three dimensional metal forming called repousse. These can be custom ordered giclee printed not serigraphed in size and material ie. Valued at over 5000.

Sea to sky 2 original painted mural series 2008. Bill helin tsimshian artist native name is welaaxumyout. Welcome to my personal website bill helin is a tsimshian norweigan finlander artist drumming enthusiast book writer illustrator and designer. Sea to sky 1 original painted mural series 2008.

Bill s native name is welaaxumyout. However he did attend the gitanmaax school of northwest coast indian art in 1981. Sea to sky 5 original paintings on rag paper series 2500. Prints come in 3 sizes on canvas or can be expanded.

Other projects have been working with nasa and the canadian space agency designing 3 mission patches and educational materials. His artistry is largely self taught learning from books about new techniques such as three dimensional metal forming called repouss é. Bill helin is of tsimshian norwegian decent and is a member of the tsimshian nation born and raised in the northwest coastal community of prince rupert bc his father was arthur helin his grandfather henry william helin was chief of the gitlan tribe and his grandmother maud helin was chief of the gitgeese tribe. Bill spent most of his art career which started in 1979 carving traditional tsimshian wood carvings jewelry and painting.

However he did attend the gitanmaax school of northwest coast indian art in 1981. Bill helin s limited editions on paper and canvas. Tsimshian norwegian artist bill helin welaaxumyout was born in prince rupert b c. In 2013 bill carved two 15 red cedar totem poles for the canadian international school of hong kong in a 21 2 month time period as their first artist in residence projects teaching over 1800 students of the carving process and many other topics of first nations art and culture.

Some of bill s available prints date back to 1984 all the way through to his most recent releases.