Helen J Young - visions of Nepal - Kintsugi towers

about this time last year, Free Planet did a blogpost about Oxfordshire artist Anna Dillon’s exuberently colourful landscapes.

But I’d never seen Anna Dillon’s paintings in the flesh, I just random’d upon them in one of my normal everyday grazing frenzies. Today, the wife and I decided to go for a picnic-walk, and I chose a walk that began at Cholsey (train station) and ended at Didcot (train station) which would take us through the village of Aston Tirrold where Anna Dillon lived, it was her last day of Art Weeks so it seemed opportune. Her work was as vibrant as the artist herself, great to meet her.

We discovered that there were other artist exhibiting in the village, so ‘when in Rome’… my personal favourite was the (abstract) work of Helen J Young whose exhibited work was based on a recent trip to Nepal. The edges of her red abstracts caught the light like Mark Rothko’s Seagram Murals… and her clay (Didcot Power Station) towers repaired with gold using the ancient Japanese technique called ‘kintsugi’ were also charming. Both below…