Helen Jones - Longtown
85 x 100 cm, charcoal, conte and black pigment on Southbank smooth
Helen Jones
Helen’s drawings respond to the might and beauty of nature and the elements. She is drawn to the sky as somewhere to escape to and something to shelter from, an omnipresent and compelling force. The environment and weather seem to effect our emotions and motivations. We are uplifted or made anxious, soothed or terrified; our lives are made trivial in the path of the storm. She uses powdered black pigment charcoal and black pastels applied by hand, removed with erasers, smudged, re-applied and built up to create a complex and layered tonal image. Helen lives in Bristol and studied at the University of the West of England.