Hélène Awad is an Egyptian-American painter and art therapist. She was raised in Paris, later moved to Cairo, and currently resides in New York.
Her background in Art History, and extensive traveling have made her sensitive to the communal nature of human beings and different styles of expression.
The daily life of women, in their essential roles as givers of life, as mothers, and as educators, keep inspiring her to search for a pictorial language with which to translate her aspiration for a peaceful and equal world.
Working with multiple media such as pencil, ink, gouaches, and oil Hélène attempts to express the impermanence of moments. Since 2016, Helene’s work has taken a new direction from figurative realistic to a more abstractive and symbolic language.
"The artist must train not only his eye but also his soul." Wassily Kandinsky
1987 : Solo show :" Works on papyrus" at the Italian Cultural Center in Cairo.