The Klompching Gallery is delighted to make available, a new series of photographs by Helen Sear. 

The Becoming Forest series is an extraordinary body of work that explores the experience of moving through a marked forest landscape, and the altered/heightened perception of surfaces, forms and space.

As with her earlier work, Sear's gesture of the hand is visible, where she has traced the lines of new forest growth, using a digital pen and tablet. The chaos and entanglement of these hand drawn lines that follow the actual forest growth, contrasts with the geometric neon pigment marks spray-painted by the foresters. The artist draws comparison to the lines of the skin of the hand, or the veins of the interior human body.

Size: 39.3"x39.3" image | 43.3"x43.3" sheet
Medium: Archival Pigment Print
Edition: 5+2AP

For acquisition inquiries, contact Debra Klomp Ching: debra (at) klompching.com

VIEW THE NEW WORK HERE

Helen Sear (b. 1955) studied Fine Art at Reading University the Slade School of Art, London. Sear's work explores ideas of vision, touch and re-presentation of the nature of experience, with particular reference to the human and animal body and her immediate environment in rural Wales and France.

Writer and curator, David Campany, described Sear as "one of photography's foremost innovators. For her the medium is one of magic as much as realism. It is never pure, fixed or entirely knowable. Each new series presents a new set of challenges that offer up her fascination with craft and our habits of looking."

Helen Sear represented Wales at the Venice Biennale in 2015, and has won several artist's awards, including The Major Creative Wales Award, from Arts Council Wales (2011).