Zu Kafka's Verwandlung, 1994
Oil on Canvas, 59" x 41"
Helma Rogge Rehders was born in Hamburg, Germany, in 1942, and has lived in England, Zambia, and in the Canadian province of Manitoba at Winnipeg Beach, where she currently resides. Rehders first developed an interest in art in the 1970s during her five years in Africa, where she taught drawing and painting. After moving to Canada, she received her BFA Honours in 1987 from the University of Manitoba School of Art, and now owns the H. RogueRaiders Studio Gallery, located in Winnipeg Beach. Rehders has received awards in both painting and poetry, including the Prairie Ocean Lunar Award (2007), numerous Manitoba Art Council awards, and first place in the Winnipeg Free Press/Writers collective poetry contest. Her art explores themes inspired by her natural surroundings in Manitoba Interlake, as she has explained: “In my painting and my writing I give homage to the landscape and the wonderful life we live here. Out my window I can see a snowy landscape of the creek, the marsh, and high spruce trees. I find it inspiring.”