About Helen Dryden

Event: We're From Earth!

Dates: 11 Jul 2024 - 11 Aug 2024

We're from Earth! at Left Bank is a selection of paintings by artist Helen
Dryden, featuring imaginary landscapes and their explorers. Helen uses a
psychedelic colour palette to create an other-worldly experience.
The paintings explore the artist’s observations of landscape and nature, and
delve into imaginary worlds and plants which may be extra terrestrial or
fantasy places, or even polluted landscapes. Viewers are invited to invent
their own narrative.
Helen is thinking about human use of land, our claim on territory and what the
future might hold. She is influenced by science and science fiction; popular
culture, nature and environmental concerns.

Event: Render Me Chaotic

Dates: 2 Apr 2024 - 29 Jun 2024

Render Me Chaotic is a solo show of paintings by Leeds based artist Helen Dryden, presented by The Art Court in collaboration with Eye Room.

Helen Dryden uses painting as a way to explore, wonder and sometimes poke fun at the world we know, as well as imagining worlds we don’t yet know. Her solo exhibition, Render Me Chaotic, features paintings on canvas and wooden cutouts, embracing a bold, vibrant, and expressive style.

Influenced by pop culture, sci-fi, everyday domestic life and nature, Dryden’s wide ranging interests are reflected in her paintings. She is attracted to absurd things, in life and in her imagination.

“I paint where my mind takes me” says the artist, “It can be as far away a

Event: Beyond Colours From Life

Dates: 14 Mar 2024 - 20 Apr 2024

Group exhibition that delves into the world of colour.

Event: Manchester Art Fair

Dates: 17 Nov 2023 - 19 Nov 2023

For the first time, I'll be taking part in Manchester Art Fair, represented by The Art Court alongside 8 other artists currently based in Leeds/Yorkshire.
The Art Fair opens with a Preview on Friday 17th November 5-9pm, and is open all weekend 18-19th November 10am-6pm.
Tickets are on sale at £10 for the weekend and £25 for the Preview - but you can get free tickets by emailing curator@theartcourt.co.uk - Free tickets! Yay! They are limited in supply, so get in there quick.
The other participating artists, represented by The Art Court are:
Michelle Duxbury
Andy Edwards
Hondartza Fraga
Jonathan Hooper
Phill Hopkins
Lorna Johnson
Sarah Roberts
and Courtney Spencer
You can find The Art Court at stand 309

Event: The Grand Old Open

Dates: 11 Nov 2023 - 31 Dec 2023

Group exhibition

Event: Bath Open Art Prize

Dates: 12 Oct 2023 - 28 Oct 2023

"Fast becoming one of the South West’s key art events, and organised by Fringe Arts Bath, the Bath Open Art Prize is open to all Artists working in all media and all genres.

105 Artists have been chosen to exhibit in a group show selected by our 2023 judges Andrea V. Wright, Artist and Jon Bennington, Curator and Arts Speaker."

Event: Woven Stories

Dates: 30 Sep 2023 - 25 Feb 2024

Woven Stories celebrates 10 years of art and culture at Sunny Bank Mills with an exhibition that maps that anniversary with a selection of artists and makers who have contributed to our story and in doing so shared their own.

Over 30 artists and makers are celebrated with work that includes painting, print, textiles and ceramics. The exhibition will change and grow over the next few months.