About Helen Steele

The recorded unconscious...
This work is a collection of imagery from childhood to motherhood. It is an impression of recorded unconscious thoughts, through hypno-training and dream analysis. Most of our knowledge, skills, attitudes and training seems to be based on the idea of conscious learning.

However the reality is that unconscious learning takes place anyway, but in an unplanned manner.

The following work is an on-going investigation into the influences of change on the unconscious. It’s a semi-spontaneous response to remembered images of the conscious mind.

The colourful diverse textural surfaces are loose and un-ordered. I run, drip and razor blade the paint, and I use re-cycled duck feathers to create three dimensional and tactile surfaces.

These techniques allow abstract forms and images to emerge and melt in the imagination.

Ultimately, I’ll produce work that is a form of escapism. I would like to think that when looking at this work the viewer would (for a second or two) feel immersed in another colourful abstract dimension.