about

Helen Dixon
Fina Artist
Cyanotype, Drawing and Print

 
 

‘energy is neither created, nor is it destroyed’ … ‘the elements suffer continual rearrangement’

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A practice that considers the shape and character of weather and the endless shifting and movement of energy in nature. In particular, the interdependence and interconnectedness of such phenomena.

Works typically depict fleeting, momentary forms from the natural world - a single wave, a lone cloud - removed from their original scene. One momentary formation in an ongoing process of continual transformation, held indefinitely on the page.

Each form is presented without any indication of a specific moment in time or place and their proportion and scale appears autonomous from any real-world referent.

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Works are made using the cyanotype photographic process, which uses simple chemistry, light and water to produce a Prussian blue image. Autographic line drawings and hand made images take the place of a photographic negative to make the final image.