Helen Dearnley Fine Art & Illustration

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  • And Our Heroes Have Misplaced Their Map
    New Peace Paintings for 2021 - this one inspired by the Lincolnshire Conchies, with an Afghan woman sewing Coronavirus facemasks mapped onto the landscape.
  • And Our Heroes Have Mispaced Their Map
    New Peace Paintings for 2021. Local poppy fields growing papaver somniferum for the pharmaceutical industry, remapped with Syrian boys removed from conflict.
  • And Our Heroes Have Misplaced Their Map - Ekebergparken
    New Peace Paintings for 2021. The view from Ekebergparken, overlooking Oslo, juxtaposed with the view from The Viking Way, with a Syrian refugee safeguarded. The two kintsugi doves are drawn from my Grandad's prize winning rare breed pigeons, specially bred with kintsugi to fix the cracks in peace.
  • Sleep Piece For Yoko Ono sold at auction March 2022
    Sleep Piece For Yoko Ono is part of experimental sound art project Lost Dreams. Created for the Inspirational Women Artists Exhibition for International Women's Day 2022, I chose Yoko Ono, as her work for peace and as a single parent artist is most inspiring for my work. It gives instructions for Yoko Ono to repeat the Lost Dreams experiment. It is exhibited here at God's House Tower in Southampton, to the bottom left of the display board. 
  • Peace Painting workshop at The Collection Museum and Art gallery, Feb 2017
    Part of the Art & Design Conference organised by Paradigm Arts.
  • Peace Painting trip to Herøy, Norway, 2016
    Funded by the Norwegian Embassy.
  • Peace Painting Workshop at The Collection Museum and Art Gallery 2017
    Part of the Art & Design Conference organised by Paradigm Arts.
  • With Norwegian artist Inger Hilde Nyrud at her studio in Bronnoysund.
    Funded by the Norwegian Embassy.
  • Peace Painting workshop in Herøy, Norway.
    With a group of refugees from Afghanistan.
  • Peace Painting workshop at Priory Witham Academy Dec 2016
    Organised by Paradigm Arts
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Helen's work was part of the University of Lincoln Fine Art Degree Show 2008 "This Is It".

She has continued to develop a multidisciplinary practice, with the AA2A scheme residency developing animation, exhibition reviews, international travel and exhibition, and in 2009, she set up Lincoln Artists' Network. 

 

To keep up to date for Helen's current projects, follow her blog.

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Above: Peace Painting research trip to Norway, 2016,  Peace Painting workshops in Lincoln, new Peace Paintings 2021.


And Our Heroes Have Misplaced Their Map

Helen's newest Peace Paintings produced in 2021 juxtapose older reference photos taken in Oslo, Norway, with local landscapes, with refugees from Syria and Afghanistan remapped over these imagined places. 


Helen is currently working with Peace Painting in Norway, seeking funding to run further workshops in schools and other venues in the UK to educate and inspire students to work for peace.

If you or your organisation have funding available for these, please contact me to discuss your requirements.


FUND PEACE!


Helen and Catrine are seeking sponsors for Peace Painting in the UK.

Contact Helen for more information, and if you wish to support the project.


  • Lego Light Space Modulator - Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin
    Lego Light Space Modulator - Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin
  • Mail Art Exhibition, Lincoln, 2012
    Mail Art Exhibition, Lincoln, 2012
  • Exhibition St. Louis, U.S.A. 2011
    Exhibition St. Louis, U.S.A. 2011
  • "The Lady Of Shalott" site-specific installation, Brayford Pool, Lincoln, 2009 "Willows whiten, aspens quiver, Little breezes dusk and shiver Thro' the wave that runs for ever By the island in the river Flowing down to Camelot."
    "The Lady Of Shalott" site-specific installation, Brayford Pool, Lincoln, 2009 "Willows whiten, aspens quiver, Little breezes dusk and shiver Thro' the wave that runs for ever By the island in the river Flowing down to Camelot."
  • "Alice In Disneyland" AA2A scheme residency at the UoL. Animation still, 2010
    "Alice In Disneyland" AA2A scheme residency at the UoL. Animation still, 2010
  • Self portrait with Morten Harket, 2010
    Self portrait with Morten Harket, 2010
  • "The Unreal God And Aspects Of His Non-Existent Universe", degree show installation, 2008
    "The Unreal God And Aspects Of His Non-Existent Universe", degree show installation, 2008
  • "How To Build A Universe That Doesn't Fall Apart Two Days Later" solo show, Nottingham, 2011
    "How To Build A Universe That Doesn't Fall Apart Two Days Later" solo show, Nottingham, 2011
  • "The Tall Man" Fictions exhibition, Gallery at St. Martin's, Lincoln, 2011
    "The Tall Man" Fictions exhibition, Gallery at St. Martin's, Lincoln, 2011