HELENKAGAN HEALINGARTS™
- Jul 8, 2025
- 3 min read
By Helen Kagan PhD
Helen Kagan PhD, a scientist, psychologist, holistic therapist, artist, is a creator of her unique concept HealingArts™ of 30 years integrating Art of Healing, Expressive Arts & Fine Art. Her mission-driven purpose is to bring HealingArts™ to HealthCare, Residential & Hospitality Markets to assist in recovery & wellness, enhance healing & wellbeing.
HealingArts™ is exhibited in multiple venues, national & International Shows, Artsy.net, major ArtFairs (ArtExpo, ArtBasel, RedDot, Spectrum), named "Collectible Artist" by many sources, published, awarded, podcasted, filmed, and begins her own TalkShow with BoldBrave TV. Helen's work is simultaneously transformational, introspective, vibrant, multidimensional, and healing. A first-generation Russian-American, she brings her unique point-of-view conveying the seriousness of the current real and alternate aka "new normal" times, and a sensitive Soul, not foreign to the colorful abstraction of the modern Russian artistic tradition.
Bestselling Author, an “Inspiring Woman-Leader” by several International Magazines with Cover features,
a Jewish refugee from a former USSR, a pioneer in intentionally creating art for healing, Dr. Kagan continues to create her unique art for healing individuals and society.
Helen is also developing her new unique colorful creation - Wearable HealingArts® with each designer item made from her own HealingArts™ where art and healing unite in beautifully crafted, high-energy garments, and is looking for partners and sponsors in Interior & Fashion Design, HealthCare & Hospitality.
In her own words:
“My mission & purpose is to encourage healing through art. In our turbulent times, amid World-wide crises, wars, fear, anxiety, stress, overwhelm & uncertainty I feel it's my duty to continue create art for healing. A severe complex PTSD survivor dedicated my life helping others, a pioneer in intentional creating art for healing, I believe in mind-body-spirit & art as a catalyst for healing individuals society & environment. I believe that now, more than ever, our World needs positive energy, spiritual intentions, gratitude, and lots of positive healing art!
My passionate vibrant HealingArts called symphony of color and a vehicle for joy and well-being, is a statement of all my beliefs.”
This unique artwork embodies the philosophy of finding beauty in imperfection and healing through art. It is inspired by the traditional Japanese practice of Kintsugi - the mending of broken pottery with gold. My “Kintsugi” painting employs abstract forms, the whole spectrum of healing colors, textured surfaces, and gold-accented fissures to mimic the traditional Kintsugi technique, transforming perceived imperfections into focal points of beauty, meaning and healing.
Echoing the abstract expressionist approach, composition resists literal representation, instead allowing emotion, and symbolism to drive the viewer’s experience. The use of layered paint and mixed mediums creates a tactile surface to activate your senses, while reinforcing the idea that harmony is forged not through uniformity, but through the integration of beauty, spirit, loss, and repair/healing into a cohesive, elevated whole.
Through deliberate fractures rendered in the composition and shimmering gold-like accents tracing these breaks, the painting communicates a powerful narrative of resilience, transformation, and unity. Soft, harmonious colors blend with graceful golden lines to evoke emotional depth, suggesting that harmony is not the absence of flaws, but the integration of them into a stronger, more meaningful powerful whole. The work invites viewers to reconsider the value of damage and healing, turning what was once broken into a testament of strength, beauty, and aesthetic grace.
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