Helen Nash has been a full-time professional artist since 1995, specializing in Sporting Dog Art. Originally from a rural community north of Nashville, Tennessee, she spent her teenage years in Kansas with relatives before returning to Tennessee. Her lifelong love for the outdoors is what brought her back and is key to her paintings today. Executed with energy and authenticity, Helen's paintings in oil have gained her television appearances and magazine covers & articles. From her first art sale in the 2nd grade, to paintings gracing the homes of collectors both nationally and internationally, the thrill of painting is still the same. Helen's formal art training began in middle Tennessee area colleges, and continued with some of our country's finest artists: Robert K. Abbett, Joseph Sulkowski, Daniel Greene, and Michael Shane Neal. In 1995 Helen left a 10-year sales position with an Atlanta firm to begin her art career full-time, fulfilling a life-long dream. Her first commissioned portrait, a Chocolate Lab, which was painted on a bet in 1989, went on to become the Ducks Unlimited 1990 sponsor print for Kentucky; later, a painting of an Irish Setter by Robert K. Abbett in International Artists Magazine inspired her to paint sporting dogs in earnest. Never once looking back, she continues painting in her 'studio-in-the-woods' near Nashville, Tennessee. Associate Member:__ Society of Animal Artists Inc. Noteworthy shows Plantation Wildlife Art Festival-Thomasville, Georgia The National Bird Dog Museum -Grand Junction, Tennessee Easton Waterfowl Festival - Easton, Maryland Appearances Tennessee’s Wild Side– Nashville Public Television – Sept. 2005 Outdoors with Doug & Hugh– channel 50 television – Oct. 2005 Publications Gray's Sporting Journal Aug. 2008 Bird Hunter's Edition: front cover Sporting Classics Sept./Oct. 2005 article: ‘Abbett on Art’ by Robert K. Abbett (pg.79) Nov 2002 article: 'Gamebirds & Gundogs’ by Chuck Weschler-editor American Field Magazine Dec. 2008: featured 'Artist of the Year' Quail Unlimited Magazine Jan./Feb. issue: article & artwork: 'A Different Kind of Hunt' by Helen Nash Pointing Dog Journal July/Aug. 2002: front cover & article Jan./Feb. 2003: article: ‘Our Lives in Paint’ by Jason Smith-editor Retriever Journal Aug. 2004: front cover & article Nov. 2001: front cover & article Tennessee Outdoor News Dec 2008: front cover & article Field Trial Magazine Spring 2005: front cover & article Midsouth Magazine Nov 2006: painting 'Training Day at Cotton Plant' featured in article 'Hunting for the Perfect Decor' Representation: Sportsman's Gallery ~ Atlanta, Georgia Collector's Covey Miniature Show ~ Dallas, Texas On dogs: “This fierce bond between man and dog goes back to our very roots, and is so honest… a great painting reveals this passion!” --H.L.N. On life: "The happiest of all lives is a busy solitude." --Voltaire