As a young girl, Helen Caruso first started her artwork attending classes at the Art Gallery of Ontario.
Eventually, putting drawing aside she got into the mainstream working in the downtown area. In the late 50s she married and after the birth of the first of her two children, she took only part time employment so that she would have time to paint.
Caruso has shown her work in various places over the years including many Art in the Park exhibitions in Toronto.
During these years she used mostly oils; however, would also paint on surfaces other than masonite, such as black velvet, canvas and wood. During the mid 70s she began painting with watercolours and acrylics.
Throughout the years, it was often on many trips throughout Ontario and Canada’s east coast that, Caruso would sketch and paint, capturing and producing many rural and city scapes.
Caruso is a former member of the Etobicoke Art Group, Art Group 59 and Visual Arts Brampton. She and her husband Frank now have their home in Dundalk Ontario.
It was during their recent move, and the fact being it has been up to half a century in storage for some of her paintings, that it was decided there is no time like the present to finally have a show of her own.
Caruso’s work is on display from Oct. 15 through Nov. 9 in the Falls Gallery at the Alton Mill Arts Centre, 1402 Queen St. The centre is open Wednesday through Sunday, 10am to 5pm.
