Helen Armstrong trained at Chelsea and Brighton art schools as a painter and printmaker. Has taught art and crafts, worked as an illustrator and graphic designer, and then trained as a counsellor and combined art work with a private counselling practice, including running groups using art for self knowledge. Now retired from counselling. Former Vice President of SIAC – Societe Internationale des Artistes Chretiens – 2000 – 2008, former President of Society of Sussex Painters 2009-2012. Has exhibited nationally and intentionally.

Interested in using new techniques, including using a computer to make drawings with the mouse, working in layers with Photoshop, which is similar otomaking a lithograph, and drawing on ipad with a finger.

Statement  What pleases me in my art work is the way the other can be found in everyday life. A road sign, jet vapour trails, sunlight falling on net curtains, a reflection in a train window, all can evoke an awareness of what lies beneath the surface. Artists deal with surface, we work with materials and how they look. As a counsellor I looked beneath the surface to see what was happening in the unconscious. In my art work I like to combine these different approaches, enjoying the pleasure of the surface effects while reflecting on the deeper meanings that are also visible.

Helen Armstrong NDD, ATC, Ad Dip Couns,

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HELEN ARMSTRONG - Artist Printmaker

www.helenarmstrong.co.uk

www.helenarmstrongart.wordpress.com