Helene Fesenmaier is a graduate of both Smith College, Northampton and the Yale School of Art. She is a leading referential abstract artist and has works in many of the world's top museums including the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Corcoran Gallery in Washington DC, the Victoria and Albert Museum in London and the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge as well as in numerous private collections. Her work has also enlivened many prominent London spaces. Her large sculpture Logbook was commissioned by the V & A and stood outside the main entrance of the museum during their exhibition The Open and Closed Book.

Helene's present show Lives of the Saints - Painting and Sculpture - Part I , is drawn from profound personal experience. While Fesenmaier is one of the few artists who produces both paintings and sculpture as an exploration of one idea, she has, like many female artists working today, been diagnosed with cancer more than once. For anyone who has ever had the grim prognosis in a cancer ward her thoughts summoned up the angels and saints. This resulted in a very direct and mysterious affinity with their experience and endurance of suffering. Their stories were not only a distracting read but went way beyond that to become an inspiration for a motif.