Category Archives: Exhibitions

How to go about exhibiting as an artist plus reviews and news of forthcoming exhibitions.

Fluidity and form in the living landscape of life

Posted on July 3, 2019 by Helen White

…these two artists I encountered had something in common. Though their mark making was pared back, economical with nothing superfluous in there at all, these landscapes THROBBED with unseen energetic life, before my very eyes, and reminded me that all things in existence are like this. We are all made-up of so much more than that which is registered by the first five senses and these other impulses make all of us, and the very landscape with which we interact at these unseen levels, who we truly are… Continue reading →

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Going direct

Posted on November 21, 2016 by Helen White

(In art…as in many spheres of activity; very topical, this one!) the pressing ‘need’ to make money has overtaken logic at many stages of the game, which is what happens when we place money at the centre of everything by deciding its what makes the world go round. Maybe we need to choose a different axle for our wheel… Continue reading →

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Losing my mojo

Posted on May 23, 2015 by Helen White

We all have moments when we lose our mojo, our sense of knowing why we do what we do, our reason for getting up and getting on with things in the morning or working towards certain goals. When we suddenly … Continue reading →

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Two exhibitions: a day of unlikely marriages

Posted on February 21, 2015 by Helen White

This week, I visited two art exhibitions in Oxford that have been in my diary for a long time. At the first, I was greeting on entry by the immense William Morris tapestry “The Attainment” with its depiction of the … Continue reading →

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Of peacocks and dragons…

Posted on November 5, 2014 by Helen White

(..and of suns and moons, of archangels with swords and little silver fish); bizarre as it sounds, these things make up the main substance of the story of my week. As though intent on taking me on a journey that … Continue reading →

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The making of an artist

Posted on May 29, 2014 by Helen White

For some time now, I’ve had a half-formed post just hovering there without the words having arrived… All I had to build it on were some photos from the galleries taken on my recent visit to Nottingham Castle Museum in … Continue reading →

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Gem-like rooms full of colour and light: in celebration of a gallery

Posted on May 26, 2014 by Helen White

  My favourite gallery in Paris, bar none, is the Musée D’Orsay so stepping in there is like being a child let loose in a sweet shop for me; and never likely to be a swift visit either as I … Continue reading →

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The dance of dark and light

Posted on October 27, 2013 by Helen White

A recurrent theme of my paintings (for a couple of years now) has been light coming through windows and what started as an aesthetic fixation gradually revealed itself to be the very way that I was exploring this theme in … Continue reading →

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Monet’s fish tank

Posted on September 26, 2013 by Helen White

On visiting Paris last month, we had the usual dilemma of how to make the most of our time but there was one place on the list that was completely non-negotiable. L’Orangerie had left an indelible mark on my psyche … Continue reading →

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‘Radical Bloomsbury’ and a Charleston pilgrimage

Posted on August 12, 2011 by Helen White

It’s been the best part of two months now since my Bloomsbury pilgrimage (as referred to in my earlier post Fretwork and flamboyance – Brighton Royal Pavilion) and I am only just setting down what this meant to me, perhaps … Continue reading →

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