Helen Rabin Artist Statement

I was born in Syracuse, NY, and grew up partly there and partly in Vermont. I spent ten years in New York City, and now live in Marshfield, Vermont, a fifteen-minute drive from the Adamant Music School.      For thirty years, my husband, Jules, and I operated Upland Bakers, a small bakery which supplied sourdough bread to local stores from our wood-fired oven.      I studied drawing with Judith Nelson at Goddard College and painting with Bill Brauer of Warren, Vermont. I work mainly in oils, and my paintings are mostly figurative -- still life subjects and landscapes.