Helen Napper

Helen Napper’s pictures have been described as still life, but are also imbued with an “alert life” of storytelling, comedy, tragedy and the natural world.

‘Those infinite, unfathomable and sometimes apocalyptic backgrounds – against which a pair of narcissi (as if they can’t bear their own reflection) turn away from one another, inextricably joined; or a solitary dog pointlessly chases (or is entirely unaware) of two swans. A mysterious fence (who is it keeping out, or in?) seems to be fllowing the parking instructions, floating on air. As it goes to park, it dissolves and loses itself in no time.

I read strange conjunctions, as if from some fashionable esoteric London Restaurant: ‘Sweetcorn and Dandelion’, ‘Pilchards and Rosehips’. Helen’s world takes us into the surreal and magical. Her paintings express an otherworldliness, a yearning for something else. Dream-like, you want to be enfolded in the bird’s wings, but the owls are forever flying across and away from you, at cross purposes.’ (Adam Crick, 2011)

Please contact Sarah Long, Carolyn Ryle-Hodges or Ruth Knox for further information.