Helen Jones

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"Her land and seascapes betray a lingering sense of isolation. You can almost hear Jones willing the storm to pass. In some paintings it does pass and you feel the same sense of relief that Helen must feel as she paints."

Her land and seascapes betray a lingering sense of isolation. You can almost hear Jones willing the storm to pass. In several paintings it does pass and you feel the same sense of relief that Helen must feel as she paints. Her abstracts, by contrast, rely on the relationships and interplay of geometry as a metaphor for the course of her life. You can almost see her 'putting the pieces back together' as though life is some giant tile puzzle.

We took a selection of her works to the Great Art Christmas Fair at Alexandra Palace, London, during December and her work is featured in the 'Summer Exhibition' at Needhams Restaurant & Art Gallery in Witchford, Cambridgeshire.

Helen Jones began painting, for the first time since childhood, in order to deal with the boredom and isolation of her relocation to Northamptonshire in 2002. Since then, the practice of painting has become so much more important, rebuilding Helen's confidence and, perhaps more significantly, providing an outlet for a particularly distressing chidbirth experience. Now, as a mother of two small children, Helen can't stop painting and experimenting and has developed her skills significantly in a few short years.

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