Joe Helmore
Cape II
Acrylic on Canvas
Image Size: 1370 x 960 mm
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‘In Cape II’ Australian-based New Zealand painter brings his vision home, to the Hawke’s Bay landscape. Depicting Cape Kidnappers as seen from Te Awanga, Helmore’s latest works offer evocative immersions into texture, colour, and light.
The rugged cliff face is defined by striking tonal contrasts and a balanced palette that blends deep purples and cool blues with burnt orange and calming earthen tones, all highlighted by a warm, glowing light that permeates throughout Helmore’s compositions. A long shadow is cast from a solitary, towering palm tree – drawing our eye toward the stirring shoreline.
Helmore’s surrealist touch is felt through his egg-shaped and singular cloud formations, and a subtle ‘view within the view’ in the sky – the contours of the Cape in silhouette.
Artist Bio
Joe Helmore is an Australasian painter whose practice is rooted in a profound inquiry into how we perceive; how memory, instinct, and emotion shape our encounter with the visual world. Working across oil, acrylic, and aerosol, Helmore composes paintings that hover between the real and the imagined, the observed and the felt. His imagery, featuring charged portraits of wild animals or vast landscapes imbued with luminosity, invites a kind of slow looking: perception as an embodied and unfolding process, not a fixed act of recognition.