Jenny Hellen
I create textile collages, and stitched paintings, which respond abstractly to the light, colour and movement within experienced spaces and landscapes. Their development reflects particular moments and time passing. The repetition of hand stitching over poured paint has a long meditative process. The horizontals, verticals and diagonals open out or enclose and contain precious moments of time where concentration and pace recedes and drifts.
The collages are made from poured paint, a found palette of fabric colours and textures whose selection contemplates a duality of surface and created space. They contrast intricacy of qualities and the broad beautiful transient nature of the light of sky through trees.
The vertical pieces take much from a Chinese and Japanese landscape tradition of scrolls allowing a composition to move upwards without a change of scale, the perspective assuming the viewpoint is not stationary but always changing.
Website:
http://jennyhellenart.com
Instagram:
@jenny2he
You can catch Jenny Hellen at Catford Arts Trail 2021 - venue no. 25 - SE6 1NL