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Portrait:
HELENA
HÖTZL
life inspires me!
wHEN DID YOU DIsCOVER YOUR
PAssION FOR ART?
As a makeup artist, I started to paint faces that I
later realised I could paint on canvas instead. It all
started in 2008 when I went to frame a painting
and the gallery owner looked at me asking me
who painted it. I was terribly shy when I told him
that I made it and he bought it at once. He loved
it. I then realised that maybe I could start selling
my art. A few weeks later, Saatchi Gallery in
London contacted me telling me that they found
my website on the internet and liked my stuff.
Through them, I got invited to participate in Budapest.
They had chosen 25 of the best Swedish
contemporary artist and I was invited.
I’d never had an exhibit before and was in a
happy kind of shock. I guess the passion to move
forward as an artist was born at that time.
wHAT INsPIREs YOU?
Life inspires me!
People that I meet. I once got a message from
some women in the US that had been going
through a lot, and they wrote that I inspired
them. I felt close to them as I have been going
through a lot of pain in my life, and that gave me
an incredible inspiration to move forward.
The love from people and knowing that I inspired
some with my art - that is the best payment you
can get.
wHO Is YOUR FAVOURITE
ARTIsT?
Don´t have any favourites as I find so many
artists that are incredible and art is a feeling, a
passion. But if I shall mention one, I would say
Henri Matisse.
YOUR PAINTING ARE MOsTlY OF wOM-
EN, Is THERE A PARTICUlAR REAsON
FOR THAT ?
I feel for women and all what we are going
through in life, as I am a woman myself.
I love faces as I did work as a makeup artist. I
love fashion and I see the beauty in every face.
But, hmm… Then, of course, I’m not that good
at painting men either.
lATElY YOU HAVE GONE FROM sHOw-
ING FACEs ON YOUR PICTUREs TO
PAINTING wOMEN AND MEN wITH NO
FACEs, wHAT Is THE REAsON FOR
THAT ?
I made them faceless, like a symbol.
The thought of them was “You are perfect the
way you are“.
Small lips, big lips, small nose, big nose - I
just want us women to love what we have, to
accept ourselves for what we are. The beauty
of being just the way we are.
Many women compare themselves with others
all the time. For what? We are unique the way
we are. So I made them faceless for you to
imagine what they look like.
wHAT Is YOUR NExT bIG PROJECT?
Working with people in London to start
making scarves and shawls for women and
handkerchiefs for men. To start a concept with
clothes and interior designs with my art and
illustrations on it .
But first the scarves and the handkerchieves!
Helena’s
favourite things
Bvulgari Omnia is the best perfume.
Love it!
My pillowcases
Dusty smoke eye pencil by Make Up
Store. Cannot be without this or the
chocolate cheescake metallic one.
Helena Hötzl scarves
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