Oil Works

This series of works is inspired by the beauty and power of nature in its eternal struggle to temper the devastation caused by mankind.

I believe that our time has contended at all costs on bending -through the subtle manipulation of the unconscious- our will and common sense to amass profit and power, leaving the individual totally stripped of moral criteria and displacing their capacity for introspection and consequently, unable to react and perceive where the limits are.

One of the most repeated thoughts in my mind lately: My concern about the inexorable advance of climate change caused by the careless destruction of our environment. Perhaps because I listen to the voice of my subconscious, my deepest perceptions are deliberately expressed in these works to remind us of how the beauty and power of nature temper the devastation caused by mankind.

If we do not act now, our society, which justifies the atrocities and desecration that it commits, as necessary for the continuance of our existence, paradoxically, will cause our world to be a metaphor of expiration...

Helena Revuelta, October 2022

The crises of recent years, such as climate change, social injustice, the COVID pandemic, have proven to be significantly connected. We cannot remain indifferent to the fact that we live in an artificial, contaminated world, in which food is genetically manipulated, reality is transferred to a virtual universe and personal relationships are increasingly violent and toxic. We live in a world of the immediate, overwhelmed by an excess of imposed stimuli.

Art not only reflects the moral physiognomy of an era; we also seek to be inspired towards positive change.

The SHAPING NEW DIMENSIONS project is based on the concept of reshaping the way we think, feel and see the world for a positive change. A proposal to transition towards a new, more ecological, free and empathetic mentality, stripped of ornaments, minimalist, without the current distractions that make us waste our valuable time.

I often wonder if we should not safeguard our feelings and our true essence from the avalanche of valueless social impositions that lie in wait for us on a daily basis.

Conventional thought is that which makes us see the shape of things, but there is something beyond thought when the mind is silent; there is an "opening" to someplace close to the depths, hidden somewhere in the mind... A new dimension away from all the noise.

I want my painting to express an alternative to the mind that is cluttered with the things of thought that are words. I want my paintings to convey calm, to signal an openness to let “be”, to feel without fear, without confusion, to expand the mind without prejudice, as a way of letting spirituality flow.

Helena Revuelta, February 2022