From My Studio: Exploring Helen Alice Johnson’s Creative Process
A Colourful Life – A Video Blog
Join artist Helen Alice Johnson for A Colourful Life, a weekly video blog following the places, ideas and experiences that inspire her paintings. From beautiful gardens and changing landscapes to works in progress, exhibitions and life in the studio, Helen shares an insight into her creative process and her fascination with colour, nature, pattern and sacred geometry. Each episode offers a glimpse behind the paintings and into the landscapes and stories that inspire them.
Week 38: Chiswick House and Gardens - Revisited
Join me as I revisit Chiswick House and Gardens and explore the beautiful gardens, both ornamental and architectural as I seek inspiration for my large abstract paintings.
Week 37: The Secret Garden, Wolverton, Milton Keynes
This week I am in The Secret Garden, Wolverton, Milton Keynes, as I look around this garden that has been influenced and created through the proximity to the railway in Wolverton. It shows a positive relationship between the community and nature as it is shaped as well as used by the the community of Wolverton and Milton Keynes.
In the Studio: Week 28
Join me this week as I take down a couple of exhibitions and finish my abstract oil painting of sunflowers.
Week 36: Revisiting Lucie Dutton’s Garden in Streatley
I return to a beautiful country garden in Streatley to seek inspiration for a large abstract diptych painting based on the golden section rectangle. Join me for a look round a fabulously inspiring garden.
In the Studio: Week 27
This week I show you what to do when a painting isn’t going according to plan - and how to be brave in changing it! Join me as I radically change my sunflower abstract oil painting.
Week 35: Jardin des Personnalites, Honfleur
Join me this week at Le Jardin des Personnalites, Honfleur, Northern France as I explore this unique and interesting garden.
Week 34: Lassay Les Chateaux for the 3rd time!
Revisiting Lassay Les Chateaux Medieval garden for the third time, I am inspired by the purple and yellow explosions of colour to make a vibrant abstract landscape painting. Meet me in the garden to see what I see!
In the Studio: Week 26
This week I am painting Sunflowers in oil on two canvases, in the shape of the Golden Section rectangle. One half is a traditional oil painting and the other an abstract landscape. Join me now to see how I painted it.
Week 33: Lassay Les Chateaux revisited
This week I revisit the Medieval Garden at Lassay Les Chateaux as I look for inspiration for my large abstract paintings, and find lots of contrasting colours and shapes. Join me here now.