P O R T F O L I O
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Helen Sayer’s practice explores the material and aesthetic capabilities of painting, challenging its conventions to investigate what it really is, and what it can be. Using a combination of traditional and contemporary techniques, she creates landscape oil paintings before subjecting them to processes of intervention, deconstruction and reconstruction, resulting in a physical transformation of the original image and its material condition. In her ‘crushed’ artworks, landscape paintings are broken or ground down, some as fine as a pigment, to be remade into new artworks. These 2D and 3D outcomes can be described as existing within themselves: the original painting has been reduced to fragments or fields of colour, providing a visual summary of the original work. By allowing the paintings to evolve from one form to another, her outcomes are not simply an act of destruction, but suggest renewal and possibility.
Helen Sayer’s practice explores the material and aesthetic capabilities of painting, challenging its conventions to investigate what it really is, and what it can be. Using a combination of traditional and contemporary techniques, she creates landscape oil paintings before subjecting them to processes of intervention, deconstruction and reconstruction, resulting in a physical transformation of the original image and its material condition. In her ‘crushed’ artworks, landscape paintings are broken or ground down, some as fine as a pigment, to be remade into new artworks. These 2D and 3D outcomes can be described as existing within themselves: the original painting has been reduced to fragments or fields of colour, providing a visual summary of the original work. By allowing the paintings to evolve from one form to another, her outcomes are not simply an act of destruction, but suggest renewal and possibility.
