HELEN DRYDEN
(b. 1977 Middlesbrough, UK)
Helen Dryden is a Leeds based artist working from her studio at Sunny Bank Mills. She primarily works with paint though her practice also involves curating, illustration and photography.
She makes in an expressive and instinctual way, creating absurd and vibrant canvasses. Drawing and photography is often a starting point, or else images seem to appear spontaneously from the painting as she works. She loves to experiment with ways of beginning a painting, and enjoys not knowing what the outcome will be.
Helen is attracted to strangeness and the wonder of perception, the affect of our emotions, experiences and imagination on what we think is reality. She’s influenced by science fiction, folk horror, environmental concerns, a love of nature, pop culture, and dreams.
In the pool, in the shade (2022)
There's no such thing as broccoli (2020)
7 Boys Bathing (2020)
Thunderbolts and lightning very very frightening me (2021)
Stadium (2021)
Birdman refreshes the nest (2022)