Helen LopezNov 10, 20201 minI have no catchy title.....My legs are not holding me up for long, painting has been slow. I can stand for a few minutes to make my next move in paint, then I need ...
Helen LopezOct 5, 20201 minobjectsJust when canvases were hard to get in the middle of lockdown I was asked to paint two guitar bodies and a skateboard. I painted the bodi...
Helen LopezAug 5, 20201 minA Different Path.There is a place that is between where you are and where you were and what is next, a cusp, or a threshold. Last winter I could go for a w...
Helen LopezJul 18, 20202 minIt was once.I really cant buy canvases at the moment, my usual supplier has been out of stock of the ones I favour and my funds have dried up along w...
Helen LopezMay 29, 20202 minThis has been interesting -I seem to be obsessed with making books and painting in them. I started sometime ago tentatively, then the thing gathered momentum now I ...
Helen LopezMar 16, 20201 minabout abstractwhen I first started to paint outside of college in the 80's I always included a figure usually female, occasionally male, at this early ...
Helen LopezMar 15, 20201 min self isolation is my default settingsince going out of the house zaps my energy I don t do it much, I don't have much to play with so I don't waste it on unnecessary activit...
Helen LopezFeb 27, 20202 minlying down nowI have a stomach upset of epic proportion or so it seems - rumbling, squeezing and griping. It has battled me down into a horizontal posi...
Helen LopezJan 18, 20201 min watching the gardeners, their bodies digging, moving stuff and working together, i hadI had....... the sense that I once new how that felt, to be energetic and effective with strength in my muscles. Sometimes I get to feel ...
Helen LopezDec 31, 20191 minwhat now? onward into a new year, a new decade.looking back over the last year and the last decade I see mostly a blur not much comes into focus immediately accept the loss of my mum, ...
Helen LopezDec 4, 20191 minthe process and change What is interesting to me about this is how often when my mind is "made up" on something or so I think, the process of writing it down......
Helen LopezDec 2, 20191 minPart 2. obliteration and next stepThis is where it was for a bit....... I couldn't live with the colour combo the purple and yellow were making me wince but for some reaso...
Helen LopezNov 22, 20192 minpart 1. nearly done with this one - or so I thoughta bitty week where I have deflected rejection and handled praise in swift succession.
Helen LopezNov 19, 20191 min Flat Day and A Therapeutic CollageI didn't fancy continuing where I left the canvas that has been occupying most of my studio time this week - instead I went to a large sheet
Helen LopezNov 15, 20192 minToday could have been a duvet day. And to be fair it was looking like a duvet day until about half nine. Yesterday I had an afternoon out socialising with dear friends our ...
Helen LopezNov 12, 20192 minIndoor sunshine in NovemberToday I cut into this pumpkin to make some soup for today and a cake for tomorrow. Just look at that colour it is pure warm sunshine on a...
Helen LopezNov 5, 20192 minthe surfaceIn my light sleep awareness skims the surface of a painting stoping at a spot I am not sure about - does this work ? do I need to change ...
Helen LopezNov 1, 20192 minJust going for it.This is where I am today with this piece. I started out with squares of colour mixed from hanza lemon yellow and ultramarine light plus w...
Helen LopezOct 28, 20192 mincaught up I read oftentimes on social media that people with ms do not allow ms to become them. That there is a choice - they may have the disease ...
Helen LopezOct 24, 20191 minbeing clear Working title - money for chocolate. mixed media on canvas 90x100cm/32x39inches this painting went from above to the below in twenty minu...
