Helen Klebesadel
Sacred Grove Triptych, 40x90
Butterfly Effect: Lupine and Common Milkweed, watercolor on paper, 24x22
Prairie III, watercolor on paper, 30x40
Prairie Grasses, watercolor on paper, 30x40
Prairie Fire Renewal, watercolor on paper, 22x30
Disappearing Prairie I, watercolor on paper, 40x30
Earth Element: Droughts, watercolor on canvas, 40x30
Water Element:Multipler Day Precipitation Events, watercolor on canvas, 40x30
Fire Element: Forests Burning, watercolor on canvas, 40x30
Air Element: Storms, watercolor on canvas, 40x30
Helen Klebesadel is an artist, an educator, and an activist. Born and raised in rural Wisconsin, her art is the place where she uses visual thinking to explore how we learn our deepest values. Klebesadel is best known for her large-scale, richly detailed watercolors with environmental and women centered themes.
“My visual concerns run the gamut from careful study to poetic, symbolic and sometimes political representations of nature and human nature.  My transparent watercolors, on paper and canvas, push the traditional boundaries of the medium in scale, content, and technique. I start with detailed drawings and developing the images with layer upon layer of color washes and dry brush technique mixed with occasional areas of wet-into-wet spontaneity. My current artworks celebrate the awesome power and beauty of nature and remind that what we do to the earth we do to ourselves. Everything is connected.”