Helen Tabor - Connecting Threads

4 June - 25 June 2023

Our third solo exhibition with Helen Tabor

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Art critic Jan Patience writes:
'Helen Tabor's paintings shimmer whatever the weather. Be it spring, summer, autumn or winter, Tabor evokes a feeling of the impermanent nature of all our lives as we move through seasons.
There are staples in all her paintings. In the former goat shed turned studio at the end of her garden, Tabor starts every artwork by laying down the same foundation. She starts with a collage of Chinese paper then layers on raw sienna oil paint with a large brush.
With an idea in mind for a particular colour combination, Tabor starts to build up layers, while simultaneously stripping them back.
It's all part of the process and it's purely instinctive as to how and when it happens.
Tabor loves a broken surface. That solid grounding of raw sienna often peeps through into the cool tones of Sutherland landscape or the rough and tumble of a river in spate.
Whether she is painting a landscape, an interior or a figurative scene, Tabor brings a gentleness to the mottled surfaces of her paintings.
Everyday moments, such as the one depicted in Kitchen Shelf with a Painted Egg glow like jewels. The odd flash of cadmium yellow or vivid pink breaks up the scene until your eye is drawn to a little painted egg on a top shelf.
Tabor's figures wrap themselves around the surfaces of their surroundings. Sleeping in the Afternoon presents a mother and child curling around one another. All limbs and curves. The raw sienna of Tabor's underpainting turns to skin, while the faint pink of roses on white fabric pop out of the bed on which the figures lie.
Textiles find their way into many of Tabor's paintings. In Italian Window, a figure glides past an ornate arched window clutching a large bouquet of fiery stemmed flowers. The broken roughly textured white jacket glows, and her full black skirt is punctuated by a punchy pink floral pattern.
The title of this exhibition is Connecting Threads and it is possible to draw a line through all Helen Tabor's paintings. Nothing stays the same but everything – and everyone – is connected.'