Helen M Tate

My work are an expression of stories she finds in words, music and above all nature, the environment that is always changing, seasons, the time of day, drastic skies, wind that blows, stormy seas.
All seasons have their own variation to give. The shifting between them and seeing nature change in front of us can be, and most of the time is, a very beautiful occurrence.

‘I create these pieces trying to form a story of calm, protection, hope and dreams’

I am Swedish born, lived in Amsterdam, Vienna and Isle of Man, now reside in the foots of the Maresme hills with my husband, two children and dogs.

The mediums I am uses depends of the idea and feeling I am trying to create, but lately I have been getting in to abstract painting with weaving details and also cyanotype printing.
Ceramics is also a very big interest of where I try to let the clay talk more than trying to shape it to a clean form. That said, one of my inspirations is all imperfections in life, also called wabi-sabi, a Japanese aesthetic, where a famous quote goes:

‘The way of wabi sabi is to find profound beauty in imperfection, and to accept the impermanence of life’

A quote that is very close to my heart both in life and in my creativity.