Helen Verhoeven’s (1974, Leiden, The Netherlands) paintings concentrate on the human experience, capturing the turmoil of the individual and the hysteria of the group. At times finely rendered, at times deliberately crude, her distinctive pictorial style appropriates and inverts traditions of portraiture, religious and mythological painting, and the fantastical and the mundane. Her work depicts rapture, despair, indifference, lust, aggression, and estrangement within a transhistorical space.