Biographies > Helen Whitehead

Helen Whitehead is a fine arts artist and art teacher in all media. Her work is influenced by her painting trips abroad, her studies under artists Herb Ariss and Jack Reid, and the landscape of the north. Her TAG collection work is a composition of a Haileybury Street, evoking the flavour of the town with the dominance of the lake beyond.

Helen studied art at Beal Tech and the University of Western Ontario in London and Nipissing University in North Bay. She has also attended numerous master workshops and painting trips. She has taught visual art with various school boards of Nipissing as well as privately. She has give demonstrations and shows at Ontario North, Ontario Place and Science North as well being a media art reporter. Helen has won many awards and belongs to the Northern Ontario Arts Association, the North Bay and Area Arts Council, the White Water Gallery in North Bay among others. She has work in many collections including the Ontario Institute of Secondary Education, North Bay City Hall, Ministry of Social Services, Ontario Northland Railway, Diocese of Sault Ste. Marie.

Being an artist in northern Ontario.  Because I work largely on commission, many of my paintings are of our northern landscape.  Born in Sudbury has embedded in my psyche, an affinity for the rocks, water and trees and its affects on us as independent, hardy, diligent people. ...