See Helle Kjærulf's artwork here

I was born on September 7, 1959.
I am a trained journalist and have been painting since 2005 and exhibiting since 2008.
Lives and works in Ebeltoft, Boeslum Bakker.
Exhibitor at art fairs, in art associations and galleries.
I am included in the book "101 Artists" by Tom Jørgensen, Forlaget JA 2014.

Education received by:
Birger Møller for a number of years (course), Aarhus Art Academy.
Otherwise self-taught.

Has exhibited in many art associations in Denmark.
Has i.a. been associated with Gallery Lyrum, Gallery Andersen Art, Espergærde, Hjerm Art Gallery, Gallery Bomhuset, Kbh, Art Compaz, Frederiksberg, Gallery Draupner, Silkeborg, Gallery Saltum, Gallery Milo, Rynkeby, Gallery Art for Future, Valby, Gallery Art Corner, Randers.

Helle Kjærulf:
"I paint abstractly or non-figuratively on canvas.
Nature is an eternal partner in my pictures. Although I do not paint naturalistically, landscapes often emerge - mental landscapes. The ones I call mindscapes.
My paintings are in a way like a poem or music, a path towards an expression that eventually falls into place and makes sense to me.
The diverse forms of nature, the organic, the changeable and the eternal are what my pictures spring from.
In my painting process, I make great use of the watery possibilities and mixing possibilities of acrylic paint. The structure is layer upon layer in a harmonious composition and often with great transparency.
I work with the very intuitive and sometimes accidental principle. The process from the white canvas to the final painting is every time a journey of discovery in a new world.

From the book 101 Artists 2014

"Mind Flow" is the name of one of Helle Kjærulf's paintings. Quite a fitting title when you consider what it is she wants to do with her art.

Although her abstract images may well give associations to flowing water, to ice formations, rocks and nature's organic growths, it is important for Helle Kjærulf to emphasize that one particular interpretation is not fixed on her part. If you take the flowing water that most of her paintings evoke associations with, you can instead see it as a kind of stream of consciousness. The force, unconscious by nature, that flows through the universe affecting both microscopic things and the great infinite macrocosm and, inextricably linked to it, one's inner self. This thought, Buddhist in origin, is also reflected in many of Helle Kjærulf's picture titles, which refer to Zen Buddhism. More of a philosophy than a religion, this one is about filtering away both the external visual impressions and the brain's intellectual barriers in order to reach an immediate, meditative approach to the world's phenomena, and ultimately become one with them.

If you look at Helle Kjærulf's paintings, you discover how the energy seems to continue beyond the picture frame. The movement shoots up and down like a river, interrupted by crossing tributaries and here and there a larger or smaller maelstrom of circular ripples on the surface. The many layers of transparent paint reinforce this effect of water and flowing liquid and contribute to giving the otherwise flat painting a three-dimensional character. This is reinforced by almost fossil-like impressions, which can look like grey-black islands in the ever-flowing body of water.

Color also plays a very important role in Helle Kjærulf's pictorial world. Without sticking to one particular colour, different shades of blue dominate her paintings. Turquoise, sky blue and ultramarine colors are part of a dynamic interplay with glowing orange and more muted rust red and brownish shades. One image can be clear and meditative, another more melancholic, while still others are characterized by a fresh and optimistic energy like a rapidly flowing mountain spring.

Perhaps it is music that can best describe Helle Kjærulf's paintings. In this wordless art form, more than anything else, the unconscious and the intuitive dominate. In the same way, one should consider the pictures. You have to dare to let go of yourself and let yourself be carried away by the flow, the energy and the richly nuanced network of colors. If you can't exactly put your feelings and thoughts into words, it doesn't matter much. Helle Kjærulf's paintings are about the unconscious and intuitive. We all have it in us. We just have to dare to let go.
Tom Jørgensen, editor at Kunstavisen, from the book 101 Artists 2014.