Helen Rumpel Pillow Fine Art Creative Stitchery Original New Mexico Artist For more than 30 years in Santa Fe, Helen Rumpel has created fine art in cloth, in stitchery, and in oil and watercolor paintings. Her primary medium has become fine art stitchery, in splendid arrays of colorful threads and yarns, reflecting fascination with the mythological and spiritual symbols of ancient and contemporary cultures.Inspiration in fiber art is much like that in a painting: a majestic cathedral, the colorful cup of a flower, halos of snow falling in a cold land. Helen has been fascinated with Byzantine art and architecture, and her art often burns with its fervor.Travel has been a great inspiration, and Helen has lectured and exhibited all over the world. Winner of the 1990 Governor's Award as the Outstanding New Mexico Woman in Art, she has had 20 one-woman museum/art center exhibits in the past 15 years, in Illinois, Missouri, Michigan, California, Indiana, Nebraska, Oklahoma, Minnesota and other states. And of course, a great concentration of her art is in her Southwestern base.In New Mexico she has had solo exhibits in Taos and Santa Fe, and more than 400 pieces of her art are owned in the West Texas area alone. So popular is she there that Texas Tech University in Lubbock has created an archive of her works, papers and records.Helen has studied, exhibited and lectured internationally as well, in Russia, Italy, Japan, England and Turkey, and has visited other countries. Her drawing Russian Snow Trilogy, in intense blues and whites, was also made into a stitchery, which is currently on a two-year national tour sponsored by the Embroidery Guild of America, which has awarded top honors to her work in 1994, 1996, 1998 and 2000.In May 2001 she will be the featured national artist at the Albuquerque, NM, Fiber Arts Fiesta, "chosen because the themes, techniques and themes she uses .interest so many."Helenn's expanding world of stitchery continues to include commissions, intensive study and extensive teaching and lecturing. Her studio publications include full-color posters, note cards (82 to date) annual calendars (wall and engagement) and a Book of Days.