Helyne Jennings

Helyne is an abstract multi media artist working with fabric, paper, painting materials and thread to create textile wall pieces. Helyne has been a practising self employed textile artist since graduating from the Royal College of Art in 1981 after having gained a First Class Hons degree at Loughborough College of Art in embroidery.

Her work is driven by emotion, a response to current events, things seen or touched, to the land, coast and moorlands in Devon where she lives. A passion for colour, texture and simple shape form the basis to explore vibrant compositions that incorporate many traditional printing and embroidery techniques with overstitching by hand and machine on each piece that has become a trademark style. This final process consolidates the work and makes it ‘whole’. 

Works are a continual experimentation constantly pushing the textile medium through processes of hand painting with inks and acrylic paints combined with stitch on layered fabrics and papers. Textiles and thread are regarded as part of the ‘painting’ process.  

With new digital technologies, re-cycling and eco materials constantly emerging new explorations into digital art have been absorbed with recent additions of digital textile prints.