Helen Matthews

Biography

It's been a very long time since I had a chance to do any artwork. I am a Welsh based artist in the South Wales valleys. I originally trained as a Fashion & Textiles Designer and was a Textile and Accessories Designer for many years. I worked in the Retail fashion, accessories, furnishings industry for many years. These days I have re-trained as a Further Education Teacher and I have re-studied Photography and web based art software programmes such as web design, Photoshop and Adobe Illustrator. I teach classes in Photography, Jewellery design, craft, Fashion, Art & Design and ICT. I have currently been studying ceramics and doing this for the last few years and I love to work with all different kind of medias. I paint landscapes, Fashion Illustrations, Portraits of Famous celebrities, I especially love the old Glamour Hollywood stars. I am also a very keen photographer and I am currently working on my own new online photography profile website. In the meantime I am practising some of my Illustrations and I am sharing some of my progress work on here to see how I am developing. The Illustrations I work on are from inspirational Photographs I have either taken or stock photography. I work with Inks, Acrylic, Gouache, Pencil, Charcoal, Watercolour and coloured pencils, pastels and markers. I also paint Abstract canvases with textures and various 3D materials ie, Polyfilla, string, stencils, plaster, papers, leaf etc. I have no other websites or Blogs as yet apart from being represented on Twitter, Flickr and Facebook social media sites.