Master Collection | Mary Helsaple

• Trouble in Paradise

  Watercolor, Paper, 25(35F) x 40(49.5F) x Matted and Framed. Civilized societies are able to mobilize and take action in a crisis. What can animals do to influence us to minimize the impact we have on our cooperative wor…

• Diversity

  Watercolor, Paper, 35(44F) x 25(35F) x Matted and Framed. In the two paintings, Diversity and Destruction, I compare the present with the future. Irrevocable choices are being made before we realize what we are changing…

• Destruction

  Watercolor, Paper, 35(45F) x 25(34F) x Matted and Framed. In the two paintings, Diversity and Destruction, I compare the present with the future. Irrevocable choices are being made before we realize what we are changing…

• Tribes - A World Apart

  Watercolor, Paper, 25(43F) x 40(47F) x Matted and framed. The Yaminawa has slicked down his hair with a mixture of red Achiote dye and tree sap. The Hoatzin is an ancient species of bird that digests leaves with two sto…

• Artist Painting The Rainforest

  Watercolor, Paper, 26(34F) x 30.5(39.5F) x Matted and framed. By immersing herself in the environment, the artist can create images of scenes that never where, but that could have been. The relationship between nature a…

• Existence at a Price

  Watercolor, Paper, 25.5(34F) x 40(48F) x Matted and framed. When a Scarlet Macaw survives being stolen from its nest and smuggled into other countries by the illicit pet trade, it will have the misfortune to be deprived…

• Another Point Of View

  Watercolor, Paper, 28.5(36F) x 33(41F) x Matted and framed. As we walk down a trail in the Rainforest, the natural world is all around us. It is from the forest floor perspective that we see the environment and we relat…

• Intruder

  Watercolor, Paper, 25(35F) x 40(49.5F) x Matted and framed. We often intrude upon nature's delicate equilibrium. When we cause a frog to jump, a bittern will take the opportunity to react and snatch the frog, and the oc…

• Predator or Prey

  Watercolor, Paper, 28(35F) x 40.5(49.5F) x Matted and framed. When we walk in the wild undisturbed forest, we travel the paths of all ancient, primitive people and creatures that preceded us. Our technology enables us t…

• Rainforest Madonna

  Watercolor, Paper, 26(36F) x 36(45F) x Matted and framed. In the new millennium, it hard to imagine that there still exist tribes of indigenous people called the Machiguenga, living and thriving as they always have deep…

• The Picnic

  Watercolor, Paper, 21.5(31F) x 29(38F) x Matted and framed. Survival is no picnic in the rainforest. From the largest to the smallest creature, labor and dedication ensures that existence continues. This painting of Sou…

• Cutting Edge

  Watercolor, Paper, 30(38F) x 22(30F) x Matted and framed. The under forest canopy keeps the atmosphere cool and moist, where the cut areas become hot and dry from the piercing sun. Is to be on the cutting edge, the brin…

• Symbiosis

  Watercolor, Paper, 22(33F) x 29(39F) x Matted and framed. There are still places on this vast earth where the ancient system of shared cooperation exists. The Quechua native with his basket of lilies tills the soil to g…

• Discovering the Edge

  Watercolor, Clayboard, 16(22F) x 20(26F) x Framed, no glass

• Territorial Dispute - California Condor

  Watercolor, Paper, 40(47F) x 25(34F) x Matted and Framed. The California Condor is a 'contemporary dinosaur'. We spend millions of dollars and great emotional energy to pull this unique species back from the brink of ex…

• Turtle Magic

  Watercolor, Paper, 22(33F) x 29(39F) x Matted and Framed. Toys produced in a technology culture are strange, hybrid representations of plant and animal forms rooted within the natural environment. If we lose the connect…

• The Gathering Place

  Watercolor, Paper, 29(37.5F) x 40.5(48.5F) x Matted and framed. Peru's Quechua mothers and Yellow-rumped Cacique families gather in the morning to share their stories. We gather together for safety and security. We shar…

• Raven Mad

  Watercolor, Paper, 39(50F) x 26(36F) x Matted and framed. Look who is trying to get our babies This painting is a 3-D sculptural Watercolor. It is an expanded technique of traditional watercolor with multiple painted, o…

• Here It Comes Again

  Watercolor, Paper, 40.5(49F) x 26(33F) x Matted and Framed. Poison-dart frogs of the tropical forests use color and design to attract attention. Today’s rock-climbers imitate this same bizarre behavior with the way they…