Tag: pop color painting

Carola Helwing creates paintings that carry the memory of movement, shaped by her background in dance and deep understanding of the human body. Beginning with photographs of dancers, she transforms gesture into something more internal, capturing not just how movement looks, but how it feels from within. Her figures exist in a delicate balance between strength and fragility, where tension, control, and release unfold quietly across the canvas. Colour plays a central role, sometimes soft and atmospheric, other times bold and vivid, including pop tones that bring her work into a…