Joe Helmore

‘In Cape II’ Australian-based New Zealand painter brings his vision home, to the Hawke’s Bay landscape. Depicting Cape Kidnappers as seen from Te Awanga, Helmore’s latest works offer evocative immersions into texture, colour, and light. 

 

The rugged cliff face is defined by striking tonal contrasts and a balanced palette that blends deep purples and cool blues with burnt orange and calming earthen tones, all highlighted by a warm, glowing light that permeates throughout Helmore’s compositions. A long shadow is cast from a solitary, towering palm tree – drawing our eye toward the stirring shoreline.

 

Helmore’s surrealist touch is felt through his egg-shaped and singular cloud formations, and a subtle ‘view within the view’ in the sky – the contours of the Cape in silhouette.

Image Size: 1370 x 960 mm

Born in 1982 in Hawke’s Bay, New Zealand, artist Joe Helmore now lives and works in South Australia. He completed a Bachelor of Visual Art and Design at Massey University, Wellington in 2005 and has exhibited widely in New Zealand and Australia since.

Helmore chooses the figurative animal and the landscape as his subjects.  Working to varying scales, his paintings invite the viewer into his unique vision through semi-abstracted vistas and thoughtful geometric mark making.

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