ABOUT

Helen Chambers is a British artist based in London whose work explores the nature of impermanence, and glimpses of the natural reality of life.  Helen graduated from Winchester School of Art with a BA (hons) in Printed Textile Design in 1995 and went on to enjoy over 25 years designing printed textiles for the fashion industry. Now a full time artist,  she brings a sensitive understanding of colour, composition, and visual balance to her practice. Varied brush marks and textures allow Helen to build her paintings slowly through layers of acrylic paint and pastel, creating surfaces that hold traces of time and change.e.

Helen’s work is shaped by an intuitive approach, and by the small shifts in emotion and atmosphere that often go unnoticed. Drawing inspiration from the natural world, she uses colour, allowing soft transitions and tonal contrasts to suggest both vulnerability and quiet strength.

Her work has been selected by Saatchi Art’s Chief Curator three times for ‘New This Week’. She exhibits and sells regularly through online platforms and five galleries  around south England.

‘My work aims to express those rare moments when the familiar world loosens and something else becomes visible. These glimpses often happen in nature, when noticing beauty. They offer a sense of depth beneath the surface, a reminder that reality is layered , hidden and yet continually revealing itself.

Impermanence sits at the heart of my process. I am fascinated by how moments slip away even as they shape us, how emotions surface and dissolve. My work attempts to capture these transient states, never fixed, always in motion, honouring the beauty of things that cannot last.

Light and dark are the structural forces of my visual language. They operate not only as physical contrasts but as metaphors for the dualities we carry, certainty and doubt, joy and sorrow, light and shadow. Their interplay allows me to explore through the use of colour these emotional thresholds and to suggest the fragile balance between what is illuminated and what remains hidden through layering paint.

Through these themes, I offer the viewer an opportunity to pause inside the transient, to notice the subtle, and to feel the echoes of what moves through us before it fades.’