Helen is currently based in Cardiff, Wales and has been emerging across various platforms, showcasing her work at solo exhibits in novel venues and local live music events.

Latest Work:

July/August 2024

• Helen begins her course in Community Development and starts her part-time role of Creative Wellbeing Apprentice at Awen Cultural Trust.

June/July 2024

• 60 day Solo H.ART Exhibit at Waterloo Tea café. (Penylan, Cardiff) Commission donations to Big Moose Charity, and Recovery Cymru.

• ‘ Tudor Lane Workshops ’ - Summer Studio Open Day alongside some 20+ local businesses, ceramicists, and artists based and working on Tudor Lane (Cardiff).

• #SwipeOutStigma through art - Community Activity Workshops (2x 2 hour co-facilitation) at Recovery Cymru.

April/May 2024

• 60 day Solo H.ART Exhibit at Waterloo Tea café. (Wellfield Road, Cardiff) Commission donation to Big Moose Charity, and Recovery Cymru.

• 6 week Solo H.ART Exhibit at Little Man Coffee. (Bridge Street, Cardiff City Centre)

March 2024

• 30 day Solo H.ART Exhibit at Waterloo Tea café. (Whitchurch Road, Cardiff). Commission donation to Big Moose Charity, and Recovery Cymru.

• ‘ Tudor Lane Workshops ’ - Spring Studio Open Day alongside some 20+ local businesses, ceramicists, and artists based and working on Tudor Lane (Cardiff).

February 2024

• ‘ARTISTS4CHANGE’ - Helen collaborated with other local artists to raise funds to support the provision of aid to Palestine, Congo, and Sudan. Event/ shop/ exhibition curator - Amber Forde. (Cardiff City Centre)

November 2023

• H.ART featured in Issue 04 of Radar Mag, and held a mini exhibition at the launch night, alongside Emily Gee Art (Cardiff City Centre).

• Helen also worked with Welsh Music Prize 2023 nominee, James Minas to put together an exhibit, alongside Amber Forde, at Culture Lab (CULTVR) as part of a two-day, story-based, live music & performance-experience event titled, “Waiting Room” (Cardiff).

July 2023

• H.ART held a month long, solo exhibit with Tiny Rebel Bar. (Cardiff City Centre)

• Helen also featured in Pallet Arts - Guerrilla Galleries project, supported by FOR Cardiff. (Cardiff Central Arcade)

• H.ART held a one night pop up exhibit (alongside Sioned Mason-Smith) in support of Minas Sound - as part of their new EP’s stand out single “ All My Love Has Failed Me ” video launch (filmmaker: Ren Faulkner) - at BayArt Gallery. (Cardiff Bay)

April 2023

• H.ART participated in a one day market through Vookoo Events (Bristol).

• H.ART also collaborated with Rec Head Music Collective to create album art work which was produced in response to the writing process, for the single and live session feature, “All For Love“; the making of this was documented by C-Bloc Productions, which you can view on YouTube.

March 2023

• Helen exhibited work (‘MINDING MY PEACE’) with Pallet Arts (008 event). (Cardiff City Centre)

February 2023

• Helen releases her ‘Professional Fine Art Baryta Prints - Planetary Series 2022’. (Website)

January 2023

• Helen collaborated with the Foxy Roxies as part of their It’s My Shout Documentary with the BBC Wales; professional H.ART artists stall. (The Globe, Cardiff)

December 2022

• H.ART held a professional artists stall, a Resonant Cymru’s “Queermas” - a Beacons Cymru live music Christmas event. (The Globe, Cardiff)

• Helen releases her second artist’s series - ' Planetary Series 2022 '. (Website)

October 2022

• H.ART Website launches.

June 2022

• H.ART releases their first artist’s series - ' Spring x Summer Series 2022 '. (Social Media; Etsy)

May 2022

• Helen releases her first batch of original prints. (Social Media; Etsy)

March 2022

• Helen resigns and pursues H.ART full time.

“ it's a mood ”

Contemporary, Expressionist, Abstract Paintings

"…immersive and magnetic…"

H.ART is the creative brand culminated by contemporary-abstract artist, Helen R. Clews (she/her/they/them), who uses mixed-media to contextualise her expressive style.

Using art as a way to freely explore emotions has functioned as a form of therapy for Helen. It has allowed her to explore new mediums and techniques, to combine materials and work in the realm of mixed media.

Her abstract practice particularly explores the modulating tension between spontaneity, creativity and skill, in order to convey complex emotional, mental and/or spiritual states.

Experiencing significant bereavement since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, Helen has utilised her grief to redirect their passion into a business endeavour; choosing to seize the moment to independently invest in her craft, and ditch the office desk for the easel. Simultaneously using lived experiences as the drive not only to create, but to inform their prospects as a socially informed artist, in supporting wellbeing in communities misrepresented or misjudged, through the power of creative expression.

Helen is self-taught, having painted and created for her lifetime. She has curated her own expressive style to offer a space where all your needs are held in a moment on the canvas, expressing what can't always be - in any other way - other than in moments of pausing and contemplation. Helen aims to challenge viewers' beliefs on concepts and experiences often kept hidden in shame in Western Society; bringing it to light through the lens of lived experience.

At this stage of her career, Helen is currently working as a Creative Wellbeing Apprentice at an established arts and culture organisation, focussed on serving disadvantaged and isolated communities in the South of Wales; supported by an education in Community Development with Gower College Swansea.

This experience is underpinned by Helen’s ambitions and aims to facilitate impactful workshops, and to collaborate with charities and community projects to support those affected by grief, addiction, carer fatigue, homelessness and isolation; while also diligently championing the successes of her queer and female-identifying peers.

H.ART - it’s a mood - has plans to expand their product range into scale-able prints, cards, tote bags and other more accessible experiences of these unique bursts of texture and colour.

Find out more about Helen’s inspiration for here.

All Artwork is a genuine, authentic and an original one of a kind. 

All copyright and reproduction rights are reserved by the Artist (H.ART/@itsamood.22/Helen Clews)