Movement, colours and flamenco dancers
In her paintings, Helle Borg Hansen focuses a lot on movement and expression, and a favourite motif is female flamenco dancers. These flamenco dancers are created by Helle Borg Hansen almost from within, as she herself is an active flamenco dancer with many years of performance and teaching behind her. Therefore, Helle can feel the movements while painting or modelling them.
Wild animals and horses are another elaborate motif, where she often focuses on the eyes that look intensely at the viewer.
Stylistically, she has a mixture of abstract and figurative, where the motif is painted transparently on the colourful abstract background. And otherwise, it is expressionist painters who are the artist’s own role models.