Helen Hale ROI (1936 - 2024)

Statement

Helen Hale’s work tends to be abstract or semi-abstract and she attempts to convey feelings, mood, or a sense of place through colour, form and shape rather than being constrained by specific visual references.  Her imagination is stimulated by the challenge of translating the invisible into the visible.

Methodology

Helen's paintings are mainly in oil, applied with a knife. 

Her sculptures are usually abstract or semi-abstract forms carved in marble, stone or wood.  Before carving begins, detailed drawings are made and then a maquette.   She also carves wood in bas-relief, and models in clay for casting with generally more figurative subjects such as portraits or commissions.

Bio

1936 Born in Harpenden, Hertfordshire

1955-70 Designing and illustrating books and book jackets for publisher, Robert Hale Ltd, combined with part-time drawing, printmaking and sculpture at St Martins School of Art and the Sir John Cass School of Art

1974 Elected a Member of the Royal Institute of Oil Painters

2002 Elected Honorary Archivist of the Royal Institute of Oil Painters

Memberships

National Society of Painters, Sculptors & Printmakers

Free Painters & Sculptors