Welcome to Helen Moss Art
Here you can view the work of the artist Helen Moss and discover the inspiration behind her paintings.
Helen is a 2007 Fine Art graduate of Newcastle University. She is based in Studio 6 of at the Biscuit Factory Gallery in Newcastle- Upon- Tyne. This is where she paints highly coloured semi abstract works inspired by the urban built environment with particular focus on the subway beneath the 55 Degrees North apartments in Newcastle city centre. Over the past year she has been selling work regularly at open studio events and finds this highly rewarding as she sees the way people respond to the vibrancy of her work and her passion for the subject matter.
"Within subway spaces there exists a conflict between invitation and exclusion due to the contrast between artifical light and hard edged geometrical architecture. My paintings exploit these conflicting characteristics through layerings of coloured glazes and distortion of the conventions of perspective, creating an ambivalence through which the viewer is unsure of their position in relation to the work.
My paintings are the product of experimentation with photography, model making and installation referencing the complexities of the subway environment."
In all of Helen's paintings a rectangular motif is used. This represents the end of the subway and refers to the sense of distance and geometry found in these environments. Another feature in her work are pillars, these reference an architectural feature of the New York subway which she visited in 2005. She paints pillars in many of the paintings to distort perspective and draw the view in to the central rectangular space. In this way her paintings are new spaces constrcuted from the elements of two different environments.