Apricots, Books and Sweet Wrapper — Oil on Board - Helen Perkins
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Apricots, books and sweet wrapper – Oil on board

By Helen Perkins
Here, the artist was interested in balancing different colours — particularly the fresh apricot next to the more muted teal in the background. Upturned on the books is a small...
Here, the artist was interested in balancing different colours — particularly the fresh apricot next to the more muted teal in the background. Upturned on the books is a small portrait of the artist's husband. The apricot-against-teal balance is one of those colour decisions that sounds simple and takes considerable looking to get right — the warm stone-orange of a ripe apricot has a very specific relationship with a desaturated teal, and shifting either colour even slightly breaks the tension that makes the composition work. Helen Perkins describes herself as motivated by the interesting personalities and subtle colours she finds in her subjects, and the small portrait of her husband slipped in among the books is a characteristic touch — the human presence inserted into the still life without announcement. Original oil on board, 12.3 x 17.2cm. One-of-a-kind, signed. £325.
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ABOUT THE ARTIST

Helen Perkins

Helen Perkins is a Derby-born oil painter whose work spans portrait, still life and landscape. Primarily self taught, with sustained input from Royal Portrait Society painters including Sam Dalby and Toby Wiggins, she paints directly from life — a practice that runs through both her formal portrait commissions and the still life studies of pears, sweet peas, cherries and artichokes that make up her current catalogue at Print Club London. She divides her time between studios in Derbyshire and London. Her work has been selected for the Royal Society of British Artists, the Royal Society of Portrait Painters, and the Society of Women Artists. Her painting Polly won the Cass Art Emerging Female Artist Award; her portrait Sinead was longlisted for the BP Portrait Award; and she received the Michael Harding Painting Award in 2016. Ten of her portraits toured the North of England as part of the Armstrong Watson Face Forward commission. Paintings from her studio have appeared in ITV’s Liar.

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