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  • Working from her studio in West Wales, Helen Booth makes paintings and works on paper shaped by repetition, erasure, and...

    Working from her studio in West Wales, Helen Booth makes paintings and works on paper shaped by repetition, erasure, and time. Her practice has been recognised with the Adolph and Esther Gottlieb Foundation Award for Painting and the Pollock-Krasner Award, and her work is held in private collections internationally.

     

    Original works are available to collect.
    Commissions are undertaken selectively.

     

    ARTIST STATEMENT

    My work is shaped through repetition, erasure, and small, deliberate gestures. Each painting develops slowly as layers are built, removed, and reworked, allowing the surface to reveal its own history. Over time, my practice has become one of reduction, discovering how the simplest marks can hold the greatest presence.
     
    My earlier work explored impermanence through ephemeral paintings made with earth, sand, and the effects of weather. Although the materials have changed, that way of working remains central. In the studio, I continue to build and dismantle surfaces, letting gravity, time, and the physical behaviour of the materials become part of the process. Nothing is fixed too quickly; each painting emerges through sustained attention.
     
    Dots and lines appear again and again, not as symbols but as gentle acts of accumulation. They create rhythms across the surface, moments of density and stillness, inviting the eye to move, pause, and return. The palette remains restrained, centred on whites and subtle pushed-back colours, allowing the texture and light to become more apparent.
     

    Rather than seeking certainty, the work exists in the space between intention and chance, erosion and permanence.

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