Helen Burgess

Helen Burgess is an East London-based artist whose work spans drawing, collage and painting. Her practice distils experience and memory through close observation and quiet, reflective process.
  • Tutor
  • Alumni
  • 2008
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Role

Tutor, Drawing Year Alumni, 2008

Biography

Helen Burgess studied Illustration at Falmouth College of Arts (2000-3). She finds that observational drawing keeps her perceptions bright, making collage enlivens fragments of experience and memory, and painting becomes a process of strict distillation. She lives and works in a Buddhist community in East London.

'I approach drawing as a series of wordless questions. If you can do this sincerely, you find that there is no such thing as ordinary life'