Helen Gordon

Born in Warwickshire, Helen moved to the West Country, firstly to read European Studies at The University of Bath in 1981 and latterly, in 1994, to set up home with her family in The Chew Valley, where she remains to this day, having done a stint in London working as a graduate trainee with Bass Charrington.

Having always led a creative life, whether painting in water colours, interior design (she featured in "25 Beautiful Homes) or garden design, for the past fifteen years her focus has been sculpting, which she happened upon when she agreed to accompany a friend on a ceramics course for one afternoon a week at The Bristol School of Art. She was instantly hooked and has not looked back. Interest in her work grew and she began to start selling her pieces professionally.

Helen's studio is at her home in the Chew Valley and she is also represented by galleries in the South of England. As well as open exhibitions and Arts Trails, she also sells via her website
Creating both animal and figurative sculpture, her pieces tend towards being quirky and amusing and certainly eclectic. In Helen's words "If a finished sculpture makes me smile then I am satisfied".

Helen works primarily in wax and clay and most of her pieces are limi...

Helen read European Studies at The University of Bath in 1981 (a four year BA Honours Degree).
As regards her experience and education in sculpture, Helen is largely self taught, mostly from the Internet.
In her words, "The Web is a marvellous tool and much can be learnt from it!".
It is from the web that she taught herself to make armatures, which opened up a whole new world.
Her untutored efforts were consolidated by more formal study at Queens Road College of Art and Design in Bristol.

The Natural Eye, Society of Wildlife Artists Annual Exhibition, Mall Galleries, London, SW1. 19 - 29 October 2017.
Chew Valley Arts Trail, Chew Valley, North Somerset
Battersea Affordable Art Fair, Battersea, London
Bristol Affordable Art Fair, Bristol
Eastwood Manor Charity Sculpture Trail, East Harptree, Bristol.
Bristol Guild Exhibition, Park Street, Bristol
Bath & West annual Art Show, Royal Bath and West Showground, Shepton Mallet, Somerset
Somerset Art Exhibition, Sherborne, Dorset
Ilminster Art Exhibition, The Meeting House, Ilminster, Somerset.
Delamore Exhibition of Fresh Art, Cornwood, Ivybridge,
Devon.
Somerset Art Works, Somerset Art Weeks Festival celebrating contemporary and visual arts in Somerset.
Duke's Art Exhibition, The Dorchester Fine Art Salerooms, Dorchester, Dorset.