Helen Rhodes

Helen Rhodes was born in Staffordshire in 1970 and studied textile design at Loughborough College of Art and Design graduating in 1992 with a First Class Honours Degree. Painting was something she did to support her woven textile designs but it was this that Helen carried on when she left college.

Since 1994 Helen has been selling original art work nationwide. Winning the Imperial Cancer card competition two years in succession spurred her on to find a card publisher and she successfully sold greetings cards through various publishers.

Helen was the recipient of the Gift of the Year in 1998 and was awarded Best Up and Coming Artist by the Fine Art Trade Guild in 1999.

Her work has a unique style. It combines intensely rich colours, textures and patterns with naïve compositions. Most of Helen’s original paintings have torn edges hinting that each image is a fragment of a larger painting giving an element of preciousness to each piece. The richness of her mixed media work is achieved through a lengthy process involving different techniques and paints. The extra depth of colour is given by a final layer of varnish.