Helen Beard

Notions of Loss, 2022120 x 120 cmoil on canvas
Applebum, 2022180 x 124 cmoil on canvas
Swing Low, 202236 x 36 cmoil on canvas
Pleasure Centre, 2022120 cm diaoil on canvas
Growth and Expansion, 2022 36 x 36 cmoil on canvas
I Think Of Thee Twine And Bud, 2022 150 x 130 cmoil on canvas
Fulcrum, 2023150 x 130 cmoil on canvas
The Thin Membrane Between Us, 202450 x 50 cmoil on canvas
Convallaria majalis (Lily of the Valley), 2024183 x 122 cmoil on canvas
She Has The Shape of My Hands, 2024183 x 123 cmoil on canvas
Ladies Lunching, 202470 x 70 cmoil on canvas
The Space Between Us, 2023150 x 130 cmoil on canvas
Stretched Out On Your Shadow, 2024150 x 130cmoil on canvas
Through Our Lust, We Hope, We Seek To Die And Live Forever 202470 x 70 cmoil on canvas
There Is No Gate, No Lock, No Bolt That You Can Set Upon The Freedom Of My Mind, 2024182 x 122 cmoil on canvas
Lamprocapnos (Bleeding Heart), 2024150 x 130 cmoil on canvas
From The Sweet, Deep Throat Of The Night Flower, 2022140 x 120 cm oil on canvas
With Your Mouth As A Pillow, 2024100 x 80 cmoil on canvas

Helen Beard (b. 1971, Birmingham, UK) studied at Bournemouth and Poole College of Art and Design and went on to have a fifteen year career as an assistant art director in the film industry. During this time, Helen continued with her artistic practice, working in the diverse mediums of paint, collage and needlepoint. Her work vibrates with movement and colour in a celebration of the erotic experience. Using a vibrant palette and an ever changing framework: from close-crops to wide shots, to create a landscape of intimacy. She portrays sexuality in raw and bold canvases. All without fail filled with expression, colour, an acute sense of framing, and an unmistakable interplay between abstraction and realism. “I do love the abstraction I get from a very zoomed in point of view where the forms and the colours are indistinguishable and quite powerful.” Beard says. Her paintings are a textural fusion between form and colour, utilising sinuous brush strokes in a motion akin to stroking skin. She has exhibited in numerous group shows, including ‘True Colours’ (2018) at Newport Street Gallery. Solo shows include ‘It’s Her Factory’ (2019) at Unit London and ‘The Desire Path’ (2020) and ‘The Tulips are Too Excitable, It Is Winter Here’ (2023) at Reflex Amsterdam. Helen’s work has also been translated into a series of silkscreen prints, produced with UNIT Drops, Reflex Amsterdam and Paul Stolper Gallery.

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