Copperetching with softground. Coloured.
The title goddess is actually short for something: An image I have had since living in Sweden. I first made two charcoal drawings in art school there. The feathered woman, the goddess of the seven winds. An expression of my own aerial feminine nature.
A bit different from Gaia, but going back to the ancient Greek again, the two different images Pan & Goddess brings up associations with the myth about Eros & Psyche. -Body and soul.
Helga Neeraas was born on the 2nd of September, 1961 with Leo rising, in the Northwest of Norway. She was involved with music early on, her hometown being known for its annual opera. She studied comparative religion as well as history of the theatre. She then traveled around Europe and worked. Still she had always wanted to be an artist. Fighting to escape the treadmill she started evening classes in Sweden, living and working there between 1989 and 1996. A Swedish citizen since 1996, she attended art school at Gotland where Andromeda was put together. She then moved to England to do a vocational training as stonecarver. All along she has taken courses in, worked with and learned printmaking. She has also had two murals commissioned for Indian restaurants in England where she currently resides.
