Helena Greene: A Retrospective

June 10th to August 1st 2021

Helena Greene was an artist that loved the fresh and the new and found ways to constantly reinvent the landscapes and vistas that she experienced. From studying art at Goldsmiths, London in the 1970s where she concentrated on installation art, to her work with textiles and silk printing, through mixed media collages to the fertile final years of her life, fascinated by film, her art was constantly evolving.

Her work draws on the verdant East Anglian countryside where she grew up, the south coast where she holidayed as a child, stretching to the many corners of the globe that she explored from Pakistan and India, to Mexico and Australia. She was inspired by the streets of Cambridge where she lived most of her adult life, in her home and much loved garden.

This is a fitting retrospective of an artist who lived her art and saw art in everything she lived. It is a huge pleasure for her family to see her work exhibited at the Old Fire Engine House - an exhibition space Helena loved and returned to on many occasions.