Friday 7th February - 'A Colourful Life'
This month's talk is by Helen Hallows, a mixed media artist best known for her landscape and nature based artwork. Helen was a heat artist on Sky Arts Landscape Artist of the Year 2017. Her colourful collaged pieces are naive and colourful, and tell stories of the journeys we have made and those we are yet to embark upon.
Before becoming an artist and selling through galleries, Helen was a textile designer for embroidered fashion and homeware, although her training is in Woven Textiles (Loughborough College of Art and Design). Her designs were sold to international clients for a diverse range of products - stationery, greetings cards, bedding, children clothes and quilts.
Helen now works mostly in paper, but she still uses stitch in her collaged pieces as well as enjoying the process of slow stitch, which she shares in some of her workshops. Her work is multi-layered and includes paint, collage and stitch. She creates papers in her studio with different paint and mark making techniques and combines these with found papers to create pieces that are rich in detail.
Helen sells her work through galleries, at art fairs and events, and it has been licensed internationally. Limited edition prints, cards and her range of inspiring sketchbooks are available from Helen’s website: https://www.helenhallows.com
There are two places available on Helen's workshop on Saturday 8th February: 'Draw to Stitch'. For further details, please contact: leamingtondistrictdaysch@gmail.com
Helen’s workshops aim to empower and enable learners to be able to tackle each stage of the design and make process from inspiration, to mark making, abstracting, designing and making. No more relying on photos on your phone! Helen’s style of teaching is very focused on the individual, and meeting them at whatever stage they are at on their creative journey.
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Coming in March ...
Talk by Harriet Riddell – Street Stitching around the World
Saturday 7thMarch
Workshop with Hanny Newton – Creative Embellishments
At the moment, there are places available on this workshop - if you are interested, do contact: leamingtondistrictdaysch@gmail.com as soon as possible.
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