Helen Wells - Artist

Among my favorite emails from artists and creatives are those from Helen Wells, a British visual artist. She is amazingly generous with art and creates and shares many videos about her practice, sketchbooks, materials use, and idea generation. Her art is wonderful! Typically, it is filled with beautiful patterning (and a very graphic quality), and she likes to incorporate collaged elements that become invisible within the overall design because the integration is so seamless.

In 2021, Helen had long Covid. Going through that--there was much time she was either in bed or reclining on a sofa. To pass the time, she pulled out her sketchbook mostly using pens and some watercolor to work with (easier and more convenient I would guess). Pattern is very apparent in this video tour of one of her sketchbooks from that year.

A 2021 Sketchbook Tour - Helen Wells

If you don't know of Helen already and like what you see, I highly recommend signing up for her email distributions!

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