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Dr. Helen Lees

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Artist Biography:

Helen Lees is a British visual artist and poet based near Florence, Italy, since 2019. Lees focuses on portraiture. Since her move to the Tuscan countryside, she is turning towards nature and the wild as inspiration. This is an ongoing journey without known destination. Lees juxtaposes visual images, drawn or painted, to make silent social commentary as much as develop an aesthetic – often seeking beauty. In all instances her aim is to communicate through silence as experience, based on philosophies of silence. Her practice overall combines ideas, images and craft. A portfolio of Tuscan inspired jewellery is in development.

Art Practice:

Helen Lees’ work aims to capture the moment where one speaks and then falls silent for there is nothing to say: the work has done the speaking or communicating for us. Thus the art serves to allow us to enter into a silent space where we can engage with ourselves without world-bound rumination. A response of appreciative and fulfilled nothing is the ideal Lees seeks in her audience. She is, however, keen to talk and engage with those that view her work. This is a tension and paradox only solved, hopefully, by looking again…[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]