Visit this transformational journey in art with local artist Helen Edwards as she weaves together her work as a solo artist with explorations in ecological art and community in Oxford.
Helen’s portraits are rooted in her deep ecological explorations in active imagination. Originally from the North of England, Helen has danced and swum in natural landscapes all her life. Working to connect body, breath and imagination she traces aesthetic connections with environmental images through colour, texture and symbolic detail. The paintings are juxtaposed with underwater photography which brings exciting new perspectives to the waters of Oxford revising ways in which the vitality of rivers and lakes of urban landscapes might be felt.
This exhibition celebrates 75 years of Cutteslowe Community Association where Helen has run a family art club since 2006, showcasing artistic responses arising from connecting local communities to the ecology of Oxford. In particular, the work in saving rare wetland plants and their landscapes by Freshwater Habitats Trust in Oxfordshire). Large scale collaged group landscapes and individual prints invite us to taste the atmosphere of these learning experiences.
A joyful celebration inviting new connectedness with sacred and evolutionary aspects of nature deeply relevant for our times.
Helen works as an artist, integrative arts psychotherapist and dance, having trained in environmental art and dance in the UK, Japan and Indonesia.
Exciting workshop opportunities will be offered alongside the exhibition.
