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Date of Birth: 23-December-1897. Date of Death: 08-August-1976. Gender: Female. Helen Elizabeth Martins was born on 23 December 1897 in the Karoo village of Nieu Bethesda in the Eastern Cape. She was the youngest of six children and spent her childhood growing up in Nieu Bethesda.
The Owl House is a museum in Nieu-Bethesda, Eastern Cape, South Africa. The owner, Helen Martins, turned her house and the area around it into a visionary environment, elaborately decorated with ground glass and containing more than 300 concrete sculptures including owls, camels, peacocks, pyramids, and people.
Weird to some, wonderful to others, the Owl House is a work of outsider art created by Helen Martins between 1945 and 1976. Driven to despair by the dullness of her daily life, she took steps to transform her world with light, colour and texture.
Helen Martins. Outer appearances can be deceiving. In life, Helen Elizabeth Martins was a shy, retiring figure, rarely seen outside on the streets of Nieu Bethesda. But this recluse was the custodian of a magical inner kingdom that she breathed into life.
13 de jun. de 2018 · In Nieu-Bethesda, South Africa, Helen Martins filled her parents’ cottage, now known as The Owl House, with color, light, and sculptures
The Owl House is a Museum in Nieu-Bethesda, Eastern Cape, South Africa. Helen Martins, an outsider or self-taught Artist and Owner of Owl House, turned her parents’ House and the yard into a “visionary environment” after they passed.
1 de fev. de 2018 · Rosa Lyster visits the Owl House, in South Africa’s Karoo desert, a place built by the reclusive artist Helen Martins and converted into an unsettling museum after she died.
