Helen Kilsby creates work that reflects the shifting and ephemeral aspects of the natural world. Working in mixed-media painting and printmaking, she builds multilayered, tactile , abstract paintings.
Kilsby has had solo and group exhibitions across Canada. Her work can be found in both public and private collections.
Born in the England, Helen Kilsby now lives in B.C.
I draw inspiration from a range of sources, such as archaeology, artifacts, geology, landscape and plant matter.
My process comprises of an eclectic mix of adding and subtracting: controlling the medium yet allowing the accidental. I work in layers, creating then obscuring , revealing then hiding. Painting surfaces are constantly multi-layered and renewed. This process-orientated method of constant re- defining allows a subject’s essence to reveal itself in its own time.
Bachelor of Fine Arts (Hons) Medal of Fine Arts,University of British Columbia Okanagan, Kelowna; 2004
Okanagan University College President’s Purchase Award, OUC, Kelowna; 2003
Carte Blanche V.2 Painting The Magenta Foundation, Juried Publication,Toronto, Ontario; 2008
Select Solo Exhibitions:
Earth Tapestries, Salmon Arm Art Gallery, Salmon Arm; 2006
Conduits & Fissures, Vernon Art Gallery, Vernon; 2006
Elemental, Nelson Art Gallery, Nelson; 2004
Select Group Exhibitions:
Abstract, Lake Country Art Gallery, B.C. group show Juried; 2010
Winter, The Old School House Qualicum, B.C. group show Juried; 2010
SOPA Gallery Kelowna. B.C. group show Juried; 2010
Abstract, F.C.A Gallery, Vancouver, B.C. group show Juried; 2009
Painting on the Edge, Federation of Canadian Artists Juried Show, Vancouver; 2007
Open Print Show, Federation of Canadian Artists Juried Show, Vancouver; 2007
Art in the Heart of the City, Vernon; 2007
Women against violence, Rotary Center for the Arts, Kelowna; 2006
‘et cetera,’
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