Hélène investigates nature through her practise as an artist, psychotherapist and mystic. She takes us into an imaginal world where tales unfold and we are abandoned to the unknown. Inspired by her Swedenborgian upbringing, where it was understood that the spiritual world is mirrored within natural phenomena.
Mysterious performances, paintings of visions, and sculptures that 'have sexual energy, fragility and strength that can be thrillingly confusing.' - Jan Woolf/journalist
Internationally exhibited in India, Mexico, France, Holland and the UK. Reviewed in The Times, The Independent, Time Out, The Hindu Times and The Kentish Gazette.
QUALIFICATIONS
2023 Cert. in Rune wisdom with Andreas Kornevall
2021 MA Mythology, Cosmology & the Sacred
2021 Course in Plant Wisdom with Emma Farrell
2020 Cert. in Plant Communication with Pam Montgomery
2012 MA Arts Psychotherapy, IATE
1995 BA Hons Ceramics, Camberwell College of Art
1985 PGCE, University of Durham
1984 BSc Hons Psychology, Hertfordshire University
PAST EVENTS
2021 super natural, The Hundred Years Gallery, Hoxton
2018 Curiouser & Curiouser, Whitstable Biennale
2018 Shamanic Mirrors, Whitstable Biennale
2017 Shameless, The Hundred Years Gallery, Hoxton
2016 The Gateway Between Two Worlds Whitstable Biennale
2015 Touching the Earth, Mexico artist in residency
2015 Sacred & Profane The Hundred Years Gallery, Hoxton
2014 Now in Reverse, The Hundred Years Gallery, Hoxton
2014 SHAMEn Whitstable Open House
2014 Fecund Horsebridge Gallery, Whitstable
2014 Milking the Coast - performance, Whitstable Biennalle
2013 Filth & Frills, Brighton Festival, Open House
2013 Prawn Taming, End of the Pier Show, Whitstable
2013 SWEET'ART Show, Espacio Gallery, Bethnal Green
2013 Duchamp Festival, Herne Bay Toilets
2012 London Design Festival, Design Junction New Oxford St.
2011 Tea room - performance, Embassy Court, Brighton Festival
2008 Pandora's Other Box - Horsebridge, Whitstable
2006 Canterbury Festival, Open House
2003 Brighton Arts Festival, Open House
2003 MoDA Outsized, Hertfordshire
2003 I.D. Shellgrotto, Margate
2002 Margate Rocks, Margate
2014 Photographers, Johnny's Art House, Whitstable
2003 3 month residency - International Cultural Dev. Centre, Trivandrum, India
2000 'Tying the Knot' - Exhibition, Cholamamdle, India
2000 3 month residency, Cholamandle Artists Village, India
1999 'Inside Out', Contemporary Sculpture, Queens Wd, LDN
1998 Curated and exhibited 'Worth' - St Pancras, London
1998 Contemporary Sculpture Exhibition, Etaples, France
1998 Solo show at Johnny's Art House, Whitstable
1997 Gillingham Open Art Exhibition
1997 Contemporary Art Exhibition, Etaples, France
1996 4 month Scholarship, UKWC,Holland
1996 Ceramists of Fame and Promise, The Orangery, Holland Park, London
1995 The Midlandgrand Exhibition Hall, St Pancras St, LDN
1992 Hertfordshire Arts, Old Bull Gallery, London
1991 London Potters Prize Winners Show, Bloomsbury Gallery No1, London
1990 London Potters Exhibition, Morely College
COMMUNITY ARTS PROJECTS
2001 Ceramic water garden - Unit for Arts and Offenders
2001 Prisoners art project for 'Worth' exhib., HMP Swaleside
1996 Mural, Sandringham Secondary School, St Albans
1990 N. London Murals in Inner-City Schools