HELEN BOOTH

Mae tirweddau haniaethol cynnil ond pwerus Booth, yn ei geiriau ei hun, yn ‘delweddau ystumiol, sy’n cynnig golwg bersonol ar natur drawsgynnol’. Wedi’i ysbrydoli gan olau gaeaf Cymru, arian, du, llwyd a gwyn, mae Booth yn ymdrechu i ddal ei ansawdd gwastadu, y ffordd y mae’n troi popeth yn llinell, gan wneud geometreg tirweddau + ffurfiannau creigiau + distyllu popeth arall – coed ysgerbydol + tywydd melancolaidd – yn grafiadau, crafiadau + creithiau.
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Booth’s understated yet powerful abstracted landscapes are, in her own words, ‘gestural images, offering a personal view of transcendent nature’. Inspired by the Welsh winter light, silver, black, grey and white, Booth strives to capture the flattening quality of it, the way it turns everything into line, making geometry of landscapes + rock formations + distilling everything else – skeletal trees + melancholy weather - to scratches, scuffs + scars.

[English below]
Ganwyd Helen Booth yn Burton on Trent ym 1967, ac mae'n artist llwyddiannus sydd wedi'i lleoli yng Ngorllewin Cymru ar hyn o bryd. Cwblhaodd ei gradd mewn Peintio Celfyddyd Gain yn Ysgol Gelf Wimbledon ym 1989. Mae ei thaith artistig wedi'i llunio'n sylweddol gan breswylfa yng Nghanolfan Celfyddydau a Diwylliant Hafnarborg yn Gwlad yr Iâ, gyda chefnogaeth Celfyddydau Rhyngwladol Cymru.
Mae gwaith Booth wedi ennill cydnabyddiaeth, gan ennill gwobrau iddi gan sefydliadau fel Sefydliad Pollock Krasner a Sefydliad Adolph ac Esther Gottlieb. Mae'r anrhydeddau hyn wedi hwyluso cyfnodau creadigol dwys yn ei stiwdio, gan arwain at ddatblygiad ei steil nodedig.
Mae gwaith Helen Booth i'w gael mewn casgliadau preifat ledled y byd.

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Helen Booth, born in Burton on Trent in 1967, is an accomplished artist currently based in West Wales. She completed her Fine Art Painting degree at Wimbledon School of Art in 1989. Her artistic journey has been significantly shaped by a residency at the Hafnarborg Arts and Culture Centre in Iceland, supported by Wales Arts International.
Booth's work has garnered recognition, earning her awards from institutions such as the Pollock Krasner Foundation and the Adolph and Esther Gottlieb Foundation. These accolades have facilitated intense creative periods in her studio, leading to the development of her distinctive style.
Helen Booth's work is held in private collections around the world.
I paint from stillness, a place between breath and memory. I’m drawn to the quiet weight of things: how a mark can hold a pause, how a surface can listen. Over time, my practice has become a distillation, a paring-back, where repetition, erasure, and the simplest gestures carry emotional depth.
In earlier works I made ephemeral paintings with earth, sand, and weather, knowing they would be lost. That letting-go became part of the language, a way of working with impermanence rather than against it. In the studio, this continues. Oil is laid down, pulled back, layered again. Gravity leaves its trace. Surfaces are excavated slowly. What remains is not an image, but a presence.
Dots and lines return again and again, breath-like and instinctive. I don’t place them so much as listen for them. The palette stays spare: whites, greys, ash tones. Not for purity’s sake, but to make room for quiet. Each painting is a held space, something felt rather than explained.
I think of the work as a form of noticing, a way of tuning in to the rhythm beneath the noise. Stillness as structure. Fragility as strength.

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