BROKEN BOARDS
SOLO EXHIBITION
LINTON & KAY 2025
Capturing beauty and
finding meaning in
life’s ordinary moments
The art of the ordinary
Helen Shearwood creates contemporary art that uncovers the beauty hidden in the everyday. Her practice explores how perception changes when we look again — how the discarded can become art, and how stripping away labels can allow us to see with our own eyes.
Her work is both a creative language and a personal compass, guiding her through the quiet process of understanding herself and the world anew.
“Helen Shearwood
explores the ordinary
and brings us beauty.”
A surfboard becomes art
Broken Boards, Linton & Kay 2025
The inception of Broken Boards
A surfboard becomes a seascape
About Helen
Helen Shearwood is a contemporary artist whose practice began during a challenging time in 2017. Her work is rooted in transformation — the way beauty persists, even in adversity, and how ordinary objects can become vessels of meaning, insight, and hope.
Beginning with close-up photography, Helen works in a range of media, including painting, textiles and gold leaf, highlighting the alchemy at the heart of her art.
Her exhibitions Infinite Beauty (2022), Alchemy (2025), and Broken Boards (2025) explore perception, resilience, and transformation. She is currently preparing for her fourth solo exhibition with Linton & Kay, scheduled for 2027. READ MORE
Helen photographing torn posters in London — the beginning of her next solo exhibition, TORN.
“Helen’s work is defined by its ability to alchemise brokenness into beauty. She transforms her subject matter into bold, abstract compositions that convey something tangible and emotionally resonant.”
Photograph of a letterbox
Photograph of a skip bin
From rubbish to art
Photograph of a kerb