Helmut Otto Art

UK Debut - Art Exhibition in Buckinghamshire

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On 24 April 2008, Helmut Otto will be exhibiting over 40 watercolours at the offices of Thames Valley law firm, B P Collins. Selected clients and distinguished guests of B P Collins are invited to a private view of watercolours by Helmut, inspired by his travels throughout the UK, Europe and North America.

The Gerrards Cross based firm of solicitors are hosting a private view in aid of local charity The South Bucks Hospice. The art will remain in the Chalfont Suite at their offices in Station Road, Gerrards Cross for several months, allowing clients and visitors to view and purchase.

A well established independent firm of solicitors, specialising in blending legal knowledge, experience, commitment and enthusiasm, with a high degree of personal service, B P Collins has over 40 years experience working with both organisations and private individuals within the Thames Valley area. They are committed to building long-term relationships that help grow and maintain our clients' businesses, their personal lives and the local community and are delighted to facilitate this artist and raise support and awareness for the hospice.

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Olive Trees in St. Remy de Provence

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Helmut Otto grew up in the small town of Nordhausen, Germany. At the age of 22, following a period of compulsory national service, he moved to Berlin and studied at the University of Fine Arts, a move that secured his future as an artist.

In 1962 he was awarded a scholarship and moved to Paris to train with the leading 20th Century artist Johnny Friedlaender. It was in Paris that he met (and promptly married) his English born wife, Carol, who was studying at the Sorbonne.

Helmut's art has developed from abstract oil paintings to the fine watercolours he is now best known for. His style is of almost photographic quality and is predominately landscapes or architecture inspired by his travels throughout the world.

Award winning artist taught by Helmut Otto

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New Age magazine reports: To introduce Murshida Arzu Alpana’s artworks, Millenia Gallery in Florida recently said, ‘her painting is a fascinating mix of Asian and European cultures…. moving from free forms to abstract figuration. Ms Alpana has a sophisticated — and seemingly inherent — mastery of explosive colour with subject references from the cultural traditions of her uniquely diverse homeland.’

Born in 1961, Murshida Arzu Alpana, a Berlin-based expatriate Bangladeshi artist, did her Bachelor in Fine Arts from the Institute of Fine Art of the Dhaka University in 1983.
One year after joining the Institute, Alpana left for higher education with a scholarship under the German Academic Exchange Programme at the Universitãt der Künste in Berlin in 1992.
Alpana’s teachers, who are also honoured as the living legends in the world of art, Rebecca Horn, Helmut Otto, Karl Horst Hödicke, Bernd Koberling, KB Marwan, Walter Stõhrer and others appreciated Alpana’s works highly.

‘Seeing my work, the professors at my university were very impressed and had extended the one-year scholarship to a second year. When I was a student they used to refer to me as “master” of silkscreen print and glass painting,’ Alpana said with much joy and enthusiasm in her voice. They thought it to be “poetic”.

She earned the Best Overseas Artist Award in oil, from ROSL Golden Jubilee Trust in London in 1992. One year later, she got the second prize in acrylic in the 7th and 8th Annual International Exhibition of Miniature Art in Toronto. Her silkscreen print was commissioned as the 3rd Graphik prize of Griffelkunst in Hamburg in 1995. A series of two hundred works of the artist was commissioned by a congregation of computer experts in Hanover in Germany in 2003. At home, Alpana got the Khawaja Shafique Ahmed Memorial Award for watercolour in 1980; Best Award in oil in 1982 in her class and Best Award for oil in the Shilpachariya Zainul Abedin all media competition in 1983.