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This Divine Quiet
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Helen Booth studied Fine Art Painting at Wimbledon School of Art and graduated in 1989.In 2019, she was awarded two prestigious New York awards - A Pollock Krasner award for painting and an Adolf and Esther Gottlieb Prize for Abstract Painting. Booth also won the Glynn Vivian Prize for Welsh Painting at BEEP International Painting Prize 2018. She has exhibited extensively throughout the UK and Europe, her work is held in numerous private collections around the world.
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My recent paintings concentrate on the limitless variations of the single dot and how the individual marks when placed side by side create a dialogue. Often the dots follow disjointed lines or they crowd together in amorphous blocks. Sometimes they are destroyed by gravity with dripped paints. The works explore both an impulsive and repetitive way of mark making that is both gestural and meditative. Straight and dynamic lines often appear alongside the more gossamer transient dots in the paintings.
The dot itself can be many things, a puncture wound, a beginning, an end, an existence or a loss. It can be the end of a sentence or a punctuation in a landscape. It can symbolise life and it can represent death – a full stop.
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A recent Residency in Iceland has greatly informed my practise. Standing in what can only be described as a Divine landscape has reinforced my personal belief that Nature is the most powerful force and that trying to capture the essence of Nature in its purist form is what is important to me as an artist.
The cycle of birth and rebirth, in life and in nature is key.
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This Divine Quiet: Helen Booth
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&Gallery is pleased to present This Divine Quiet a solo exhibition by the British artist Helen Booth, the first to be held in Scotland.
Bringing together more than 25 pieces from Helen Booth’s recent oeuvre, this exhibition features artworks derived from her latest residency in Iceland and strengthens the artist’s relations with light, nature and the geometry of landscapes.
