Monet had water lilies. Helen Clapcott has the A6
Monet had water lilies, or a wind-battered pine beside the sun-struck Mediterranean sea in Antibes. Helen Clapcott has the A6, and all you can survey from the 192 bus.Bill Clark, the Hale-based, well respected art dealer, says: "If she went to London to paint she could make a fortune." But Helen doesn't want to.
"As a kid I tended to be quite pleased with things I did. I liked playing on my own. Art and games were my favourite subjects at school and they were frowned upon as not being academic subjects and a way to go in the future. I never got bored with it. I tried all sorts of jobs when I left school and I thought 'this is the one thing I never get bored with'.
A great influence in her life was her late mother, Enid, who imparted the sage advice: "Do whatever you want - but don't get married". Her encouragement and belief in her daughter was a foundation stone for her career. "I have never taken to London. And there isn't the light. The light that comes across and through The Viaduct is fantastic. I just didn't respond to London. I responded to something here."
Her art is born by going out with a sketch book and recording what she sees. "They are a combination of a series of drawings - not a particular viewpoint where I am looking at a vista, more a kind of narrative, almost topographical - the dog was there, the road was there.""It's a visual feast," she says. "A red sandstone valley, the sun bouncing over the Cheshire plain. Where two rivers meet and the Mersey begins.
Helen has a significant profile in the North and the celebration of her works is set to be a key event in the gallery’s calendar. She has had major exhibitions at Salford Museum and Art Gallery, Scolar Fine Art and the Osborne Samuel Gallery in London’s Mayfair.
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