Helen Baines b. 1962
In Friday Street, Surrey Hills, 2026
oil on board
9 ½ x 11 ¾ ins
24 x 30 cm
24 x 30 cm
Friday Street is a small, time-stilled hamlet in the Surrey Hills AONB. Painting under trees by the mill pond and immersed in old growth woodland, I was acutely aware of...
Friday Street is a small, time-stilled hamlet in the Surrey Hills AONB. Painting under trees by the mill pond and immersed in old growth woodland, I was acutely aware of being part of a landscape brimming with life - from the impossible bright green new leaves to the layered birdsong, and the barely perceptible ripples of life in the water - it’s this sense of an embodied experience that I’m attempting to locate in my painting.