Hello & welcome, I’m Helen.
Thank you so much for being here.
I have spent most of my life following rules. The kind of rules that turn ‘good girls’ into hard-working, multi-tasking, 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.
Through painting I am rediscovering myself. I am learning how to follow my curiosity and trust my intuition. My work is inspired by a passion for the natural world and for the magical, often unexplainable parts of life. I am inspired by colour and light, freedom and joy, energy 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 (beliefs, feelings, emotions, memories) 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
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