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[…] Gaston HÉLIE's painting is made up of reminiscences and impressions often inherited from his already far off youth. Using a memory as a starting point, he recomposes landscapes that only really exist in him but where everyone can come and explore the substance of his own dream. The tribute he pays to cubism and the depth of his culture give his approach particular significance.

Nourished by his imagination, every canvas is like a secret, a personal melody from his heart. Hélie hardly likes clashing colours and instead confers a privileged role to light and to the ordering of lines, endeavoring to put into practice Bazaine's theory: "Art is a temperament seen through nature: man only ever expresses himself through himself." […]

Luis PORQUET, art critic

[…] Gaston HÉLIE's painting has progressively become spare, it has distanced itself from shape to become abstract. A demanding and serene painter, Gaston Hélie produces little. His canvases are the fruit of a slow elaboration. He works very washed out colours with oil, and appreciates translucency.

"Painting a picture, he says, is a long dialogue between the painter and his canvas. The picture is finished when the canvas has nothing left to say to you." [...]

Serge COUASNON, La Renaissance (28th June 2011)

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