Helen Samuels
Contemporary still life
About Helen Samuels
Based in Hastings, United Kingdom. member for 11 Years
Helen Samuels graduated from Kingston University with a degree in Fine Art Painting and has participated in group shows, open studios, solo exhibitions and an artist’s residency. Her work has featured in the New English Arts Club exhibition at Mall Galleries, London, and at the Towner Gallery,
Eastbourne, as part of the East Sussex Open. She was long-listed for Jackson’s Art Prize 2025.
Helen Samuels’ most recent work explores alternatives to portraiture through inanimate and animate objects, questioning the difference between portraying a human and a human-like artefact. She is interested in the boundaries between people as psychological entities and how much we ‘are’ other
people by virtue of our connections and relationships with them. The partial, distorted and interlinked ‘whole’ formed by disparate images is her response to these themes.
Earlier paintings are inspired by still life painting throughout history - in particular, 17th century Dutch vanitas paintings - exploring the psychological and symbolic impact of objects and how we use and arrange them in ways which create narratives.
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