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2024-5

FLOWERS 1st February - 8th March 2025.The Slade Centre, The Square, Gillingham SP8 4AY
Artist's Talk: 2pm Saturday 22nd February at The Slade Centre.
Helen Simpson talks about the origins and development of her work. A free event. All welcome.
The Slade CentreThe first exhibition at The Slade Centre of this new year offers an opportunity to explore the responses to flowers of a number of artists, working in very different ways and using a wide variety of media. Most of the artists live and work in the South West, however we are delighted to be able to include a small number of exquisite Japanese prints from a private collection.The exhibition includes works from some of the regions finest artists, including:Susan Arthur, Cath Bloomfield, Penny Brown, Chris Edwick, Paul Jefferis, Percy Lizzard, Kirsten Palmer, Sally Pinhey, Tiffany Scull, Helen Simpson..... and students from Gillingham School.
The Slade Centre is open from Tuesday to Friday, 9.30am to 4.00pm and on Saturday from 9.30am to 2.00pm. Alongside the gallery, the café serves coffee, teas and light refreshments.Tel:07775431652
BIND The Sherborne, Sherborne, Dorset. 1st March - 20th April 2025. Private View 28th February
Members of Dorset Visual Arts Salon Collective present new works which explore the relationships which bind as well as differentiate their various approaches to making work, with a focus and exploration on colour, drawing and interdisciplinary practice. I will be showing 4-6 works, including a vertical diptych "Nerine Dance".
DRAWING ON DORSET in The Drawing Room at The Sherborne, Sherborne, Dorset. 23rd November 2024 - 23rd March 2025
The Drawing Room at The Sherborne has gathered a selection of drawings that explore Dorset as a place of inspiration for artists to investigate and respond to.

"Transmutation" Compressed Charcoal. 57x41cm,in The Drawing Room at The Sherborne
WINTER ART FAIR The Anna Lovely Gallery, Sydenham, London. 7th -21st December 2024 and 11th-19th January 2025. Open Friday-Sunday 12-5pm

"From the rising of the sun and the running of the deer". Oil on canvas, at the Winter Art Fair, The Anna Lovely Gallery.
2024
BIZARRE BAZAAR Wesca Exhibition at Shaftesbury Arts Centre, Dorset. 4th-10th December
In this festive show of work by members of Wessex Contemporary Arts, I am exhibiting some of my pastels, ceramics and prints.
Artist Residency
I spent a wonderful eight days in July as an artist in residence in Abbotsbury Subtropical Gardens near Bridport, Dorset. Some of my paintings including one featured below are now on exhibition in the victorian style Tea Room until January 2025. Do look up at them if you are in this beautiful building, with delicious food I might add.

"Catching the Sun" Pastel of a Day Lily, drawn in Abbotsbury Gardens.Now sold.
Exhibitions
TAKE A DORSET VIEW Exhibition in Dorset County Hospital April-July 2024
I was invited to exhibit my Kimmeridge pots along with the stunning photographs of Dorset by the winners of the AONB 2023 Photo Competition.

EARTH FIRE WATER SPRING Visual Rhythm Exhibition

VISUAL RHYTHM Exhibition in Dorset County Hospital 10 January to 7th April
I will be taking six or so pictures to Dorset County Hospital in Dorchester, where they will hang from the 10th January til the 7th April. You do not have to be admitted to hospital to see the work! They will be in a main public corridor on the second floor leading to Damers restaurant. The exhibition is called "Visual Rhythm". I will be showing again with June Lisle, John Austin-Williams, Imogen Bittner and Mala Hassett.

"Angel Wings" pastel on paper 52x65cm at Dorset County Hospital.
2023
Exhibitions
We have been invited to return our exhibition Visual Rhythm to the Malthouse Gallery in East Lambrook Manor Gardens. We are delighted to have this opportunity again. This time Gillian Collins is able to join us, and there will be other fresh work to fill the gaps of work that has sold. So even if you had the opportunity to visit in May, you should do so again.

Artists’ Talks : Saturday 20th May at 3pm
You are warmly invited to hear Helen speak about her paintings and ceramics at East Lambrook Manor Gardens, when she and other artists taking part in “Visual Rhythm” will talk about their work and answer questions.

VISUAL RHYTHM brings together five members of the Dorset Salon (Dorset Visual Arts). Very different artists, whose work reflects the dynamic sensations found in music. Among the colours forms and marks in their work lie the echoes of a melody, a beat, or as the title describes a Visual Rhythm.
During the exhibition you can hear “Flux” a sound installation in response to the artists’ work by award-winning young composer Joy Ingle. “Flux” is a sound installation composed as a response to the movement inherent in this exhibition. The sounds of birdsong, twigs underfoot, and whistling wind morph and grow, dancing into new forms and reshaping the sonic landscape.
You are welcome to join the artists at the Preview of Visual Rhythm on 29th April, 2-5pm.

New pastel "Exhalation" (above) shown here.
"Breathless" Wesca Exhibition at Shaftesbury Arts Centre, Dorset. 1st-14th March.
2022
Group exhibition

From post-modern realism to total abstraction members of Wessex Contemporary Art (Wesca) respond to a theme using a wide and sometimes surprising range of materials.
This will be a stimulating exhibition showing in a Georgian townhouse which overlooks the Borough Gardens in Dorchester.
Aleathea Lillitos , Elaine Collett, Elaine Mills, Heather Stone, Helen Simpson, Imogen Bittner, Jane Burden, Jindra Jehu, Jo Saurin, John Bartholomew, Judy Tinsley, June Ridgway, Marilyn Rose, and Mary Tambini very much hope you will be able to visit this Easter exhibition opening on Thursday 14th April for ten days (closed Wednesday 20th)
2021
Solo exhibition

Due to Covid 19 Helen’s solo exhibition, Petal Poise (above) that was to take place in 2020 will now take place from the 1st – 29th May and 24th July – 14th August 2021. The first phase of the exhibition in May will be in the Gallery known as the Studio and will focus on Helen’s oil paintings and some of her ceramics. The second phase the exhibition in July/August will be an extended version, with works in the larger Malthouse Gallery as well as the Studio, and will feature oil paintings, pastels and ceramics. These galleries are set in East Lambrook Manor Gardens, in Somerset, well worth a visit in themselves. The exhibition however is free and there is no need to buy a ticket to the Gardens. There will be no need to book when you visit the exhibition in May, but numbers of visitors will probably be restricted to two persons in the Gallery at any one time. If you wish to see the Gardens you will need to buy a ticket www.eastlambrook.com, and check this website to discover if you will need to book to see the exhibition in July/August. |


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Helen Simpson
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Email: helen@helensimpsonartist.co.uk
