Helen_Booth_and_Jane_Cairns

HELEN BOOTH
& JANE CAIRNS
1 st – 23 rd September 2022

Flurry oil on canvas 150 x 150cm £5940

Continuum oil on canvas 170 x 170cm £6300

Falling Snow oil on canvas 130 x 130cm £5400

Formation oil on canvas 50 x 50cm £1500

Disc (Pale Chrome)
hand built ceramic
20 x 20 x 7cm £200
Disc (Large Pale Chrome Stone)
hand built ceramic
35 x 35 x 9cm £400

Black on Grey oil on canvas 30 x 40cm £800

Ghosts in the Garden oil on canvas 92 x 122cm £4500

Fractured Surface I oil on canvas 50 x 50cm £1500

Fractured Surface II oil on canvas 50 x 50cm £1500

Disc (Pale Copper)
hand built ceramic
24 x 24 x 5cm £250
Single Hole (Large)
hand built ceramic
26 x 26 x 8 cm £350

Single Grid
hand built ceramic
41 x 24 x 4cm £250
Disc (Dark Titanium Ring)
hand built ceramic
33 x 33 x 4cm £300

Ice Pack oil on canvas 100 x 100cm £4000

Sequence oil on canvas 120 x 120cm £5040

Ice Pink oil on canvas 50 x 50cm £1500

Vik Pink oil on canvas 50 x 50cm £1500

Cover (Pale Chrome) hand built ceramic 26 x 26 x 6 cm £380

Angled (with holes) hand built ceramic 29 x 28 x 24 cm £450

Suspension Series I oil on canvas 120 x 120cm £5040

Suspension Series II oil on canvas 120 x 120cm £5040

Suspension Series III oil on canvas 120 x 120cm £5040

Suspension Series IV oil on canvas 120 x 120cm £5040

Lamp base (Single Hole) hand built ceramic 21 x 19 x 11cm £400

Ring (Pale Orange Peel)
hand built ceramic
21 x 21 x 4cm £200
Cover (Strong Rutile)
hand built ceramic
14 x 8 x 4 cm £180

Lamp base (Single Grid) hand built ceramic 42 x 38 x 7cm £500

Cover (6 x 3 holes)
hand built ceramic
18 x 10 x 4cm £200
Cover (13x13 holes)
hand built ceramic
40 x 40 x 6 cm £650

An Appearance
oil on mounted paper
27cm x 17cm £300
Hidden Horizon Series IV
oil on mounted paper
27cm x 17cm* £240

Hidden Rhythm Series II
oil on mounted paper
27cm x 17cm* £240
Rhythm Series III
oil on mounted paper
27cm x 17cm* £240

Rhythm Series V
oil on mounted paper
27cm x 17cm* £240
Hidden Rhythm Series VI
oil on mounted paper
27cm x 17cm* £240

Hidden Rhythm Series VII
oil on mounted paper
27cm x 17cm * £240
Rhythm Series IV
oil on mounted paper
27cm x 17cm* £240

Stacked Series II
oil on mounted paper
27cm x 17cm £300
Thaw Series II
oil on mounted paper
27cm x 17cm* £240

White Bank Series II
oil on mounted paper
27cm x 17cm £300
White Bank Series V
oil on mounted paper
27cm x 17cm £300

Disc (Pale Copper Stone) hand built ceramic 24 x 24 x 6cm £300

Single Hole (Pale Rutile)
hand built ceramic
18 x 18 x 5 cm £220
Single Grid (Pale Copper)
hand built ceramic
32 x 13 x 6 cm £250

Helen Booth
My recent paintings concentrate on the limitless variations of the
single dot. Often, the dots follow disjointed lines or crowd together
in amorphous blocks. Sometimes they are destroyed by gravity with
dripped paints. The works explore both an impulsive and repetitive
way of mark-making that is both gestural and meditative. Straight and
dynamic lines often appear alongside the more gossamer transient
dots in the paintings.
The dot itself can be many things to me, a puncture wound, a
beginning, an end, an existence, or a loss. It can be the end of a
sentence or punctuation in a landscape. It can symbolise both life
and death – a complete stop.
When I paint, I try to balance action and inaction. Oil allows me to
do this, each layer forcing a pause in the work’s construction. I pour
and drag the paint across the surface - this juxtaposition of imposed
structure and the loosely applied paint is an emotional response
to the painting process. My restrained palette creates work that
focuses on the mark without the distraction of colour. This way of
working, the hands-off exchanges of the paint, the force of gravity,
and the element of chance are fundamental to my ideas. The internal
alchemy, meditations of being and not being, of life and death, is what
I strive to capture within my work.
My residency in Iceland has honed my practice. Standing in what
can only be described as a Divine landscape has reinforced my
personal belief that Nature is the most potent force and that
trying to capture the experience of Nature in its purest form is
essential to me as an artist.
In life and in Nature, the cycle of birth and rebirth is key.

Jane Cairns
My work is about finding beauty in the ordinary. It’s about the small things and recognising the accidental poetry
in the unnoticed and overlooked. Living in the city this is often found in apparently insignificant details of the
built environment - the way a surface has weathered, the juxtaposition of materials, the sculptural qualities of
found forms.
Taking an experimental approach to ceramic processes and materials to reflect the forms, colours and textures I
find in these places my work captures the unexpected, quiet beauty of neglected environments and found objects.
Coming to ceramics as a second career I graduated from University of Westminster (Harrow) in 2011. In 2013 I was
selected for the Crafts Council Hothouse programme, I am a selected member of the Craft Potter’s Association and
a founder member of artist collective haptic/tacit. My studio is in London. on the river by the Thames Barrier.

Single Grid (Dark Copper) hand built ceramic 27 x 11 x 4cm £230
To purchase work please contact Val Harris at art@thetablehay.com or 07956 452195
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enabling you to purchase work up to the value of £5,000 with an interest free loan repayable over a year.
All measurements are for framed sizes unless marked * where the paintings are unframed.
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All paintings are for sale upon receipt of this catalogue.