Helen Moss: Gallery

Check out Helen's latest work and collections of work

Browse through the galleries below to see images of Helen's work and click on the thumbnails to view the larger sized images.

Glazed Acrylic Paper

These paintings are a response to moving into a studio and using the entire space to create work. Helen likes to work on several pieces at the same time and working on paper gives her a feeling of spontaneity and freedom. Although they look quite precise and detailed they are painted in a very free manner with glazes of acrylic. Helen enjoys the processes behind the painting as much as the subjects of the work and spends time experimenting with different media.

These paintings are slightly more abstracted with a strong emphasis on colour and line inspired by continued research of the subway environment. They are unified, however, by a rectangular motif and the inclusion of pillars that reference the New York subway.

Magenta Model	Subway Graffiti	Subway Light	Model Light	Subway Transcendental	Magenta Newcastle	Model Reflection
Subway Reflection	Subway Fusion	Subway Illusion

Canvas

Working on canvas allows the development of a painting through the build up of layers and glazes. Helen seeks to recreate the luminosity of subway light through these methods. The canvases combine abstraction and reality creating ambivalences within the work. Within her painting colour plays an important role in the meaning of the work and much time is spent building the colour up to achieve the desired affect on the viewer of invitation and exclusion.

Subway Unknown

Light & Concrete Reality

Space Perspective

NYC/Ncle Magenta Fusion

Distorted Reality

Photo Realist/ Oil on Board

The photo realist subway paintings are inspired by a visit to New York City in 2005. They are painted in a photo realist style and have a cinematic quality reflecting the contrast between light and dark in the space and also the sense of distance within the subway environment. They instil feelings of uncertainty in the viewer through depiction of a utilitarian environment whilst at the same drawing them in through the depiction of artificial light and perspective.

Degree Show 2007

This painting installation is the culmination of three years of research of subway spaces through projection, model making, photography and painting. The aim of this piece was to create an installation based on the characteristics of the subway environment focusing on the viewer/space relationship. The canvases are eight feet tall and the same height as the space in which they are installed. This relationship allows the viewer to perceive them as architectural features that are part of the space and the fact that they are hung at ground level and taller than the viewer reinforces this feeling.

The installation was painted over a period of five months. The pieces were developed through layering of paint glazes, combining pigment with acrylic mediums and varnishes. Hard edges are contrasted with soft blurred edges representing the contrasts found within subway environments.

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Subway Light Ncle	Ncle Subway Perspective	Paper Studies	Pillar Projection	Real Light	Magenta Model	Ncle/ NYC Fusion
Magenta Projection	Subway Light	NYC/Ncle Fusion