Visual Art – Melbourne
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A horticulturalist and garden designer by trade, Helen has had a lifelong fascination with the beauty, diversity and biology of plants and flowers.
Largely self taught as an artist, she has had some tuition in watercolours with the world renowned botanical artist, Jenny Phillips, and has exhibited her traditional botanical work in “The Art of Botanical Illustration” exhibitions at the National Herbarium of Victoria.
In her current series of mandalas, Helen is inspired by; the Victorian obsession with collecting and displaying natural curiosities with more regard to aesthetics than scientific classification (a challenge to her natural inclination for order and categorisation), floriography and plant symbolism, and a childlike love of the patterns and shapes created by kaleidoscopes.
The labour intensive process has a meditative quality and her designs are imbued with personal symbolism.
Helen lives in StKilda, Melbourne
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