Helen Melland

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• Plants, strange creatures and landscapes in bold and acid hues of 1960’s pop-candy colours reminiscent of cartoon imagery and graffiti, populate Helen Melland’s canvases. Playful, upbeat and quirky, they are rooted in an interest in exploring the sensation rather than the illusion of space as found in medieval painting and traditional Japanese picture planes. It lends her work the effect of a curious caustic celebration whilst retaining twentieth century abstraction’s moments of elegy. She lives and works in London and studied at Chelsea College of Art and Design. Selected exhibitions include: 2005+2003 Solo show, Coningsby Gallery, London. She was also selected for the Royal Academy Summer