Press Coverage & Reviews
The Barton Chronicle - Business News 2004
Loske creates Tuscan countryside at Lago Trattoria
"Its beautiful, we love it and it's just what we wanted - gentle colors with an Italian villa in the distance," said Michelle Richadi co-owner with her husband Frank.
Excerpt from Vermont Women's Business Center - Summer Newsletter 2006
VWBC Business Success Stories
Helen Joy Gardener, owner of The Purple Dragonfly Art and Natural Healing, was born and educated in England and attended the Folkestone School of Art. In 1991, to further support her clients' healing processes Helen become qualified in Polarity Therapy at the Polarity Realization Institute in Ipswich, Massachusetts. Seven years later following a lifetime interest in the plant world, she became an Herbalist. In addition to all of this, Helen builds classical Cretan Labyrinths based on a 4000 year old pattern! Helen's mission is to bring healing and light through art, decorative painting, herbalism, labyrinths, and polarity therapy. Through her decorative painting, Helen creates flowers and plants on walls that bring a welcoming serenity to otherwise uninspiring spaces. As a fine artist, Helen has exhibited throughout New England as well as created a series of greeting cards featuring herbs, angels, flowers, and plants. She creates herbal therapies for individual needs and utilizes polarity therapy as a wonderful complement to the healing work of plants and art. Helen Loske was one of six artists who participated in VWBC's The Art of Success: Business training and portfolio creation program. The Vermont Women's Business Center offered a business training and portfolio creation program to artists in the Northeast Kingdom made possible by a grant from USDA Rural Development. Through this grant Helen was able to promote her business by creating professional brochures and business cards and updating her website. Check her website out at: www.helenwloske.com
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