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.

On sporting 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

Noteworthy shows
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
Outdoor Trail Magazine WGFX — 104.5 morning radio show – Oct. 2005

Publications 
Gray's Journal
Aug. 2008: 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 (pg. 138)

Pointing Dog Journal
July/Aug. 2002:  front cover & article (pg. 6)
Jan./Feb. 2003:  article:   ‘Our Lives in Paint’ by Jason Smith-editor (pg. 26)

Retriever Journal
 Aug. 2004:  front cover & article (pg. 8)
 Nov. 2001:  front cover & article (pg. 10)

Field Trial Magazine
Spring 2005:  front cover & article (pg. 22)

Midsouth Magazine
Nov 2006: painting 'Training Day at Cotton Plant' featured in article
'Hunting for the Perfect Decor' (pg. 88)

American Field Magazine
September 16, 2006: article (pg. 6)

Representation:
Sportsman's Gallery ~ Atlanta, Georgia
Collector's Covey Miniature Show ~ Dallas, Texas

Helen Lenore Nash ~ 615-672-2984
helennash@gmail.com