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A bit about the artist...Contemporary oil painter Helen Perkins creates original work that celebrates the light, colour, joy and nostalgia all around us today.
This award-winning artist paints directly from life, allowing her to find and share the interesting personalities and subtle colours she finds in her subjects. Her inspiration for paintings includes individuals who sit for her, as well as nostalgic objects from home, such as bright lemons, soft light through windows, and little metallic coffee pots. The common theme that ties her work together is that it aims to look at each subject with fresh eyes. Helen is predominantly self taught, with much valuable insights gleaned from both historic master painters and advice from excellent current painters. Her time is split between her Derbyshire art studio and London, where she formerly lived and where she returns frequently for portrait commissions. Work by this artist has been exhibited at the Royal Society of British Artists, the Royal Society of Portrait Painters, and the Society of Women Artists. You can commission a portrait or painting by contacting Helen direct, via email, at [email protected]. She is happy to travel to sitters. |
Recent exhibition appearances: |
Helen's work has been selected to exhibit at multiple national shows. She works from her own studio in Derbyshire. Recent work on display has included:
Her paintings starred in the background of ITV series Liar, in 2020 Her solo show Still Life went on display at Shoreditch's Broadgate Quarter, in December 2019 Her painting Davina was selected for show with the Society of Women artists at London's Mall Galleries in 2019 Several of her portraits are on show at Brickfields, in Brockley, 2019 Her plein air landscapes showed in Pistachios, Brockley, 2018 Two Types of Light, oil on board, was selected for show at Cass Arts, Angel, 2018 Ten of Helen's portraits went on tour throughout the North of England, commissioned as part of the Armstrong Watson's Face Forward project, 2017 Polly, oil on board - winner of at Cass Art Emerging Female Artist Award at Burgh House in Hampstead Heath, June 2017 Carl, oil on board - selected for the Royal Portrait Exhibition at the Mall Galleries, London, May 2016 Emily, oil on canvas - selected for the Royal Portrait Exhibition at the Mall Galleries, London, May 2016 Sinead, oil on canvas - longlisted for the BP Portrait Award 2016 Carla, oil on wood - winner of the Michael Harding Painting Award 2016 and selected for the Royal British Artist show, April 2016 Solo show, multiple works on canvas – in the centre of Kendal, summer 2015 Lana, oil on canvas – selected for the Royal Portrait Exhibition at the Mall Galleries, London, May 2015 |