Helen Elizabeth Kuumbi |Artist| Cornwall
Welcome
Helen is a Cornwall based, contemporary landscape and seascape painter. She works in oils, acrylics and natural inks. Her work explores the narrative of the landscape - its natural and human history. She is self-taught painter, beginning painting after a career in mental health. Her visual practice now compliments her work in folk music.
Helens first solo show was in 2019 at the Devonport Guildhall, Plymouth. She has exhibited in a number of group shows in Bristol, Devon and Cornwall since and regularly runs open studio events. In 2024, she had a residency at Bellever, Dartmoor which has focused her current practice on ancient monuments.
Helens visual art is infused with strong rhythm, movement and place. Her paintings are meditations on land as a living archive – beautiful, vast and never still.
Artwork responding to the traces of neolithic and bronze age cultures in our local landscape, how people have woven their own narratives around the stone monuments, the emotions they evoke and themes that connect us across the millennia.
From ancient trees to ancient woodlands, exploring the survivors of our landscape. I fully immersed myself in the ecology, history and management of our native woodlands in developing this body of work.
Exploring the seas energy and ever-shifting moods, and the narrative beneath the layered landscapes of Cornwall and Devon. Find out what is currently available to purchase direct from the studio
I have worked on large mural projects and decorative musical instruments. I am open to commissions if you have a similar project in mind.
Explore my previous collections, projects and exhibitions.
