Helen Caswell
Born in California, Mrs. Caswell grew up in Oregon where she attended the University of Oregon, majoring in Fine Arts.
A painter of portraits and studies in oil since 1960, she has completed more than 400 portrait commissions and a number of murals and memorial paintings for churches and schools. Among these are the design for a stained glass window for the Sebastopol Methodist Church and murals at Villa Sienna in Mountain View, St. Elizabeth Seton School in Palo Alto, and St. Ignatius Church in San Francisco.
She has taught privately, led workshops in both painting and writing, and has been Artist-in-Residence at the Franciscan Center in Lowell, Michigan, and the Foundation for Biblical Research in Charleston, New Hampshire. She has had numerous one-woman shows throughout the country.
"My favorite subject has always been chilrden and my favorite medium oil, but I also enjoy landscapes, murals, and trompe l'oiel, and working with watercolor. I n my fifties I went back to school to learn printmaking and have my own press which I use mainly for stone lithography. I also continue to do the folk painting taught me by my Pennsylvania German grandfather. Occasionally the old designs creep into my other work."