Helen Booth: Matter
Elysium Gallery, Swansea
Fri 5 July-Sat 10 Aug
Helen Booth is a contemporary painter living and working in west Wales, having exhibited at various galleries throughout the UK, and whose latest exhibit Matter comes to Swansea’s Elysium Gallery this month. Her work uses traditional mediums such as oil and gesso, through which she hopes to explore the themes of thought, memory, possibility, transience, life and death through her art. Matter continues to do so; it’s Booth’s response to the Icelandic landscape and its inherent, volcanic and ethereal beauty, fusing with the watery medium of oil paints, as if intangible.
Living in a rural part of Wales, nature forms another key inspiration for Booth, despite the abstract style of her work. Monochromatic yet elegant and natural, Booth’s new paintings focus on the limitless variations and repetitions of a single dot, suggesting many things such as the end of a sentence, but it hopes to offer viewers a meditative pause – a peaceful reminder of the brevity of the human condition. Booth’s fascination with the notion of memory shapes her ideas, something which will hopefully be fully evident in Matter.
Admission: free. Info: Info: 07980 925449 / www.elysiumgallery.com
words Kaiya Simon