We All Share the Same Sky - School and College Visits

Name: We All Share the Same Sky - School and College Visits
Start: 2024-05-03T03:38:34+01:00
End: 2024-05-03T03:38:34+01:00
Location: We All Share the Same Sky - School and College Visits

Tours and activities for children and young people

What's On | 12 September 2023 - 20 September 2023

Explore the landscapes of Wales and Iceland through the work of abstract artist Helen Booth

Book in for tours and activities.

Schools and college are invited to experience the exhibition with free guided tours and activities led by gallery staff. Visits take place on weekday mornings before the gallery opens to the public, allowing pupils to fully enjoy and experience the works. Gallery staff will support the access needs of pupils. The tour is suitable for years 3 - 7 and for group of up to 20.

About the artist and the exhibition

Helen Booth lives and works in Wales. Her abstract paintings are inspired by the wild landscapes on Wales and Iceland. She loves the feeling of 'being alone in the world' when exploring and working in these places. She admits to sometimes feeling terrified of the Icelandic environment when working on her own in the wilderness but recognises that with this fear came intense creativity.

Helen works out in the open making drawings with found natural materials. She returns home to her studio in West Wales and continues to work with these materials and sketches as she develops her paintings.

In her exhibition at Oriel Davies, curated by Steffan Jones- Hughes, Helen is showing a series of large scale paintings which she has been working on for two years.

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