“I worked with some really nice businesses that took me to really nice places.”Īfter a stint in Nashville, where her paintings of Charleston’s iconic horse-drawn carriages were especially popular, she found her way to South Carolina and settled in Pawleys Island.īarely five years later, the Carolina newcomer has secured a solid place in the artistic community and in 2022 showed her work at Piccolo Spoleto. “But I really wanted to paint and draw to express myself.” Luck advanced there to art director in charge of accounts like British Airways. “I specialized in it as part of my degree,” she explains. While in school, Luck secured a part-time gig as photographer’s assistant at the multinational ad agency Saatchi and Saatchi in London. Her pull to the art world was instinctive: At 14, her work was on display in Mall Galleries near Buckingham Palace, putting her on a path to the prestigious Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design in London. The London-born artist credits her parents’ propensity for travel abroad for developing her appreciation of the Old Masters. “The shape where the light and shadow meet provides a way for me to sculpture the piece.” “For me, the light sculpts the image, which allows me to paint three-dimensionally,” says Luck. Again, she says it’s all about the nature of the light in the moment. And the natural beauty of the Lowcountry plays to her old-school approach to painting: She sets up her easel where she plans to paint- en plein air -and whether it’s on a shoreline or city sidewalk, it’s an approach she’s always taken. The artist admits the ocean is a draw and that she finds inspiration in the maritime forests and marshes that hug the coastal waterways. I’m also a big foodie, so I’d paint all day and go out to a fantastic dinner at night-Charleston is like that too.” That’s the theme that runs through my art-not the subject or where I am-it’s the light. “The light here is beautiful, but the light in Paris is amazing. “I painted in Paris a lot before COVID,” says Luck in her soft British accent. T he quality of the light in the Lowcountry-sunrise, sunset and everything in between-is what drives Helli Luck’s passion for painting in the coastal region of South Carolina.
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