Helen Wilde

About

Helen Wilde was born in Sheffield in 1954 and grew up in Hemel Hempstead attending the Cavendish School. In 1980 she graduated with a first class honours degree in Printmaking from Cheltenham College of Art She also completed her foundation year there. Helen went on to study for an MA at the Royal College of Art in London and in 1983 she was awarded the two year Rome Scholarship in Printmaking. That same year she won The Christies Inaugural prize at the Pick of the Graduate work exhibition held at Christies Galleries. This piece was later published in Ambit 100 (1985)

On returning to England she spent three months at the Norwich School of Art as the Brinkley Fellow. Helen has continued to be a prolific but reclusive artist. The work has a rare and often raw honesty. Portraying an eventful and sometimes difficult life, it has had its black and hard side, yet through all this a sense of humour has prevailed. She has always been supported by a number of discerning collectors worldwide. Currently she paints at her studio overlooking the sea in Herne Bay and has recently returned to printmaking after a twelve year gap. In 2005 she started The Double H Pottery in Crayford with her very close friend, the artist Hazel Seaton . From here she has produced both sculptural and functional decorated pieces often combining clay with other materials.

About Helen Wilde was born in Sheffield in 1954 and grew up in Hemel Hempstead attending the Cavendish School. In 1980 she graduated with a first class honours degree in Printmaking from Cheltenham College of Art She also completed her foundation year there. Helen went on to study for an MA at the Royal College of Art in London and in 1983 she was awarded the two year Rome Scholarship in Printmaking. That same year she won The Christies Inaugural prize at the Pick of the Graduate work exhibition held at Christies Galleries. This piece was later published in Ambit 100 (1985) On returning to England she spent three months at the Norwich School of Art as the Brinkley Fellow. Helen has continued to be a prolific but reclusive artist. The work has a rare and often raw honesty. Portraying an eventful and sometimes difficult life, it has had its black and hard side, yet through all this a sense of humour has prevailed. She has always been supported by a number of discerning collectors worldwide. Currently she paints at her studio overlooking the sea in Herne Bay and has recently returned to printmaking after a twelve year gap. In 2005 she started The Double H Pottery in Crayford with her very close friend, the artist Hazel Seaton . From here she has produced both sculptural and functional decorated pieces often combining clay with other materials. .