This artwork will be on display at our exhibition "Unfurl" opening in Cambridge on 23 February 2024. Click HERE for more details.

Helen Derbyshire’s work is about the textures and mood of the landscape around her – focusing sometimes on the details of vegetation and sometimes on evoking a sense of the season, of space, light and weather. Helen’s work is about the textures and mood of the landscape around her – focusing sometimes on the details of vegetation and sometimes on evoking a sense of the season, of space, light and weather. She draws and uses digital photography, in combination with experimental textile and mixed media approaches, drawing on and referencing domestic sewing skills and traditions.

Helen’s work in "Unfurl" is inspired by the exuberance of wild flowers in late spring. Clouds of cow parsley have always been a favourite subject - evoking for Helen childhood memories of walking to primary school in her Warwickshire village home through a magical tunnel of flowering cow parsley.