Past Demo Archive

HELANE FREEMAN'S BIOGRAPHY

Painting is Helane Freeman's passion. She graduated with honors from Pasadena's Art Center College of Design, and enjoyed a successful career as an illustrator, working with major studios and corporations including Disney, Mattel and CBS' Epic Records.

Helane's uncanny ability to turn paint and canvas into emotion, movement and perspective comes from her classic Italian artistic lineage, traceable to Leonardo da Vinci via master/apprentice relationships. She has shared her lineage and inspired other artists by teaching anatomy figure drawing at the California Art Institute.

Helane began selling her paintings to local banks and neighborhood businesses at the age of 14. As an illustrator and art director, she worked on over 100 record album covers, including Frank Sinatra - Radio Years and NWA's Straight Outta Compton, named one of the 25 best album covers of all time by Digital Arts Magazine. She has earned six RIAA Gold and Platinum Albums, a Hollywood Reporter Key Art Award for ad design for the film Dumb and Dumber, and numerous other accolades over her distinguished career. Helane received the rare honor of having her work proudly displayed in the Smithsonian Institution as part of its Priority Records "The California Raisins" exhibit, now part of the museum's permanent collection.

Helane recently earned a first place award in oil/acrylics and the prestigious Barbara Burde Award at the 2019 Simi Valley Art Association Juried Art Show, and also took first place in oil/acrylics at the Thousand Oaks Art Association' 2019 Member Show.

Please visit Helane's online art gallery at artbyhelane.com.

HELANE FREEMAN'S INTRODUCTION

Helane Freeman, a Conejo Valley native and Art Center graduate, has created artwork for over 25 television shows, 10 full-length feature films and over 100 album covers, including art directing one of rap music's most famous albums, NWA's Straight Outta Compton. She's earned six Gold and Platinum Albums, a Hollywood Reporter Key Art award and won numerous local art association awards for her paintings. She also has the rare honor of having her work displayed in the Smithsonian Institution as part of its Priority Records "The California Raisins" exhibit, now part of their permanent collection.