City lights
Just as in cinema, light and shadow play a fundamental role in conveying emotions, and in stained glass, darkness is essential to project the light source full of colors, I look for that effect in "City lights". "City lights", acrylic on canvas 25 x 25 cm. I look for the effect that the artificial light is standing out against the shadow or against the darkness of the night.

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City Impressions
I look for the effect that the artificial light is standing out against the shadow or against the darkness of the night. Light effects have always mesmerized me. In fact my earliest memories are of me sitting in the back seats of the interior of a car traveling at night. My siblings were not yet born, so I must have been less than 3 years old and my parents were in front of me taking turns driving, I know this because I deduced it from the fact that I was not looking at them. I was looking at the stars,...

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Paganini
Helena Maclean is a Madrid based artist-designer and painter, who firstly graduated in interior design and later, completed several New York Film Academy Workshops. Since her first solo exhibition, featuring a collection of watercolor paintings, she's been experimenting with acrylics and developing new topics. As a plastic artist she's always been interested in architecture from a plastic point of view.The concept of deconstructive architecture is a fantastic starting point for her paintings. Helena's work is currently on display at several Art Galleries in Spain and Chile.

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Exhibition City Impressions
Helena Maclean, with her City Lights series, shows us light as a fundamental element in her works. Combined with her use of color, she forms the predominant architecture of light, shadow and hues in this series. With the use of black light, almost imperceptible to the human eye, it modifies the environment and makes the perception of it and that of movement unreal. With this combination of light and shadow, the artist transmits emotions through darkness.

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