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Halena Cline

Famous Oil Painter in Cincinnati

About Halena Cline

A studio artist dedicated to exploring the human condition through
expressive oil paintings and mixed media.

Halena Cline is a famous oil painter in Cincinnati and has worked as a studio artist most of her adult life. She has a studio at the Pendleton Art Center in Cincinnati, Ohio since 1990.

Her work is known nationally and is held in many national and international collections. She produces works by using mediums that are experimental as well as those that are more traditional; used in creative ways. She also incorporates mediums acquired through attending art conferences and by experiencing methods and techniques she has acquired in her travels and cultural encounters.

She maintains a dedication in her works to children’s and women’s issues and those that are vulnerable in today’s society. She believes that art education is vital in the classroom and has participated in many lecturing opportunities at her alma mater of Northern Kentucky University as well as the University of Cincinnati, the Contemporary Art Center and the Cincinnati Taft Museum.

— Halena Cline

Halena's

Curriculum Vitae

Some artists need to take a multifaceted approach to creativity, especially when their expressive nature shows resistance to any framework or rules that would prevent them from feeling free to give their own version of reality or imaginative fantasies in line with their personality. Choosing different languages, while maintaining a basic line of continuity that distinguishes their production, becomes thus for this category of authors a lifeblood they cannot do without, even in order to measure themselves against new stylistic challenges, with the experimentation necessary to renew and evolve creatively, because for them the very essence of art is to constantly discover something new, never experienced in their previous careers. Halena Cline’s most recent artworks belong precisely to this evolutionary path in which she chooses to immerse herself in the world of childhood, almost as if she wanted to tell the public modern fairy tales in which each observer can somehow rediscover what adults usually lose, without losing her astute and profound analysis of today’s society.

Marta Lock

International Art Critic

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