Hello & welcome, I’m Helen.
Thank you so much for being here.
Like many of us, I have spent most of my life following rules. The kind of rules that turn ‘good girls’ into hard-working, people-pleasing, exhausted women. Then I hit midlife. A madness that tips you upside down, suspends you by your feet and shakes you hard. So hard you sometimes feel like you might not make it. It shook all those rules right out of me.
Painting is teaching me how to start over. How to silence the noise and paint from within; following my curiosity and intuition.
I paint about nature and magic, freedom and joy, connection and hope.
In calligraphy, the line is considered to hold the creators energy of being. This is how painting feels to me - a transference of self onto canvas, through the hand and the brush.
“Watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you, because the greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places. Those who don’t believe in magic will never find it”
Roald Dahl
New In The Gallery
54cm square (framed size). Acrylic on stretched canvas, framed in a white painted wood floating tray frame.