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 artworks that transform ordinary objects into portals of beauty, resilience, and emotional clarity. Her practice explores how perception shifts when we look again — and how art can illuminate hope in places we least expect.
Helen Shearwood
explores the ordinary
and brings us beauty.
About Helen
Helen Shearwood is a contemporary artist whose practice began during a psychiatric inpatient stay in 2017. Her work is rooted in transformation — the way beauty persists, even in adversity, and how ordinary objects can become vessels of meaning, memory, and hope.
Her exhibitions Infinite Beauty (2022), Alchemy (2025), and Broken Boards (2025) explore perception, resilience, and the emotional architecture of everyday materials.
Helen is currently preparing for her fourth solo exhibition with Linton & Kay, due to be shown in 2027.
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.
— Urbane Gazette (Vol 7 Issue 1)
Photo of a letterbox
'Beauty, Uncovered'
'Electricity'
Photo of a rubbish bin
Photo of a kerb
'How the Light Gets In'