Artist Background
Helen Steele is a very talented mid-career artist from Dublin. Her work is a collection of imagery from early childhood to motherhood. It is an impression of recorded unconscious thoughts through hypno-training and dream analysis. Most of our knowledge, skills, attitudes and training seems to be based on the idea of conscious learning. However, the reality is that unconscious learning takes place in any event, but in an unplanned manner.

The following work is an ongoing investigation into the influences of change on the unconscious. It is a semi-spontaeous response to remembered images of the conscious mind.

The colourful diverse textural surfaces are loose and in no particular order. I run, drip and razor-blade the paint and I use recycled duck feathers to create three-dimensional and tactile surfaces. These techniques allow abstract forms and images to emerge and melt in the imagination.

Ultimately, I’ll produce work that is a form of escapism. I would like to think that, when looking at my work the viewer would (for a second or two) feel immersed in another colourful abstract dimension.