Meet the artists - Helen Boden

Helen Boden

Helen Boden studied Fine Art at Coventry and a master of Printmaking at Chelsea School of Art. 

After two print residencies and an apprenticeship for the printmaker Brenda Hartill, in 2008 Helen set up Bodenpress which is a traditional printmaking studio set in an old engineering building in Chesham, Bucks. 

www.bodenpress.co.uk

There are two presses and excellent facilities for etching, linocut and collagraphs. 

A vacuum UV lightbox and guillotine is available for photopolymer gravure or solar plate. Screenprinting with paper stencils and drawing fluid is available.

Courses in colour printing, relief and intaglio techniques are regularly scheduled. 

Once proficient, print sessions are offered, allowing collaboration with other printmakers working in various techniques. 

Bodenpress specialises in small numbers and an inspiring, friendly environment. 

The studio is open to the public two weeks of June, as part of the Bucks Open Studios.

Helens own work considers the space and shapes created by reflections and shadows, whether organic or figurative. Running Bodenpress  studio gives her the fortunate advantage to use many techniques such as solar plate, collagraph and screen print.

The solar prints deal with admired architecture overlain with a personal vision. Some solar prints show sunshine beaming through apertures and creating shapes and shadows that are almost decorative These abstract shapes become an inspiration. Colour plays a large part, capturing the memories of places once visited.

The screen prints are dominated by colour and they are developed very much like painting, printing one colour before working out the next one. The overlapping of the colours are important so that a new palette emerge

She is currently creating London based work using reflections that others might not be aware of.