MADE in Wales

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Helen Elliott is a professional painter and educator with a 30-year art career.  Her influences include Naive art, the Fauvist movement and Scottish Colourists. She is known for her naive representations of the Welsh coast and villages, using colour and movement.

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She primarily paints scenes of 'Landscape and Life' around her home in the villages and beaches of West Wales where her main studio & gallery is based.  She also often paints the Yorkshire Wolds, where she has family connections, and where the soft rolling landscape appeals to sculptural quality in her paintings. She also has a small studio in there.
 

CAREER HIGHLIGHTS

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MAJOR SHOWS & EXHIBITIONS

Solo show at the International Museum of Naïve Art in Paris (2012)

FIVAN, International Art shows in Poland and France (2008-2015)

Reading Contemporary (2016, 2017)

King Street Gallery, Carmarthen, 2016-18, 2021-2
The National Trust Gallery, Dinefwr, Llandeilo, 2015-18

Solo Show, The Museum of Modern Art, Wales, 2018

Bath Art Fair, 2017, 2018, 2023, 2024, 2025

Oriel Cardi Bach, 2025, solo show 2026

Pembrokeshire National Park Gallery, solo show 2026

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RESIDENCIES
Artist in Residence at:
International Festival of Naïve Art Loire, France (2016)

AiR Vallauris, Cannes, France (2015)

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COLLABORATIONS
Golden Artists Paints, Inc, USA International Artist Educator (2015 - 2025)
Silver Brush Company UK & Europe demonstrator (2019 -2025)

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BOOKS

Author - Creative Me - The Joy of Paint (Graffeg 2015)

 

ILLUSTRATIONS


All Teachers Great & Small (Hachette, 2012, 13)

Paradise Found (Graffeg 2017)

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Style and Themes

 

Helen paints with acrylic paint, with drawn elements of charcoal, ink and oil pastels, creating highly distinctive work. Her work is indebted to the Naive movement; the stylistic quality increasingly favours the Scottish Colourists, Fauvism, and expressionism.

she finds inspiration in the  'Landscape and Life' of Wales and East Yorkshire, her work, the colours she uses and the content is very much based on the seasonal changes that she observes in these places.

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