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Group exhibition
Looking Closer, Creativity, Art Business Helen Feilden Looking Closer, Creativity, Art Business Helen Feilden

Group exhibition

The show Life in Colour took place at Nicolls in the west end of Glasgow UK in May 2024, and I showed my work alongside Pascale Steenkiste and Elisabeth Grant. Check out their work - it is gorgeous. We all have different styles but love colour - hence the title of the exhibition. We ran the exhibition as a pop-up event over 3 days. We had an opening event on the Friday evening and then opened from 10-4 over the weekend. These are my thoughts about the exhibition:

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What is in store for 2024?
Fireweed, Looking Closer, Creativity Helen Feilden Fireweed, Looking Closer, Creativity Helen Feilden

What is in store for 2024?

Finding out about the show has impacted on my practice, mainly because when I started to plan how to use the space I’ve been offered, I realised I had more wall available than I first realised. Luckily, I have time to make some more paintings and I have proceeded to work a bit differently than I have before to really have a cohesive body of work ready for the exhibition.

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Does it ever become “not-scary” when you do something new?
Looking Closer Helen Feilden Looking Closer Helen Feilden

Does it ever become “not-scary” when you do something new?

An exploration of risk taking and learning new things.

Over the last month I have continued my exploration of painting close ups of hyacinths. I am interested in exactly how “close up” to get in the image composition, and the impact of the size of the painting itself. As I go along, for each of the paintings, I am playing with various colour palettes to suit the particular subject of that painting.

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