Helen Klocko

Helen has enjoyed drawing and painting since she was a small child, but in college she opted for a library science degree. After she and her husband moved to Maine she wrote and illustrated free lance articles for the Bangor Daily News and illustrated many covers of their TV magazine section. While her children were growing up she worked for 10 years as a custom designer of needlepoint canvases for the Needlepaint store in Bangor, and subsequently was hired by My Maine Bag to design embroidered handbags, sweatshirts, and silk-screened T shirts. She also drew their catalogs and their ads for the newspaper.  Eventually she joined a painting group in Bangor and then the art group at OTOW.

Helen’s art is not totally realistic and shows a bit of impressionistic influence.  She originally started painting with egg tempera, but now uses acrylics in a style like tempera.  She paints mostly from her photographs of her travels and has never seen a waterfall or a flower she didn’t love.