Helen Derbyshire

She draws and uses digital photography, in combination with experimental textile and mixed media approaches, drawing on and referencing domestic sewing skills and traditions. Traditional Japanese brush-painted and woodcut landscapes have always provided an inspiration - in their reverence for nature, their sense of light and space, and their focus on the beauty of simple natural forms.

Helen’s work focuses not on conventional picturesque views of the landscape, but on finding beauty in the ordinary and everyday - the simple bark of a tree or overgrown hedgerow.  Helen’s colour palette and heavily worked surfaces - stitched, darned and patched - evoke the passage of time, the cycle of growth and decay, and the beauty to be found in impermanence and imperfection.