63 x 63 cm | 24 x 24 in
Subject: Landscapes & Nature
Tags:
Bright,
Water,
Green,
Acidic,
Child
Original painting in oil on board.
..the shift is breathtaking. The palette moves into greens so rich they feel photosynthetic. This is not just a painting of a child in nature; it’s a portrait of a psychic state. The scale of the landscape is almost mythic, and yet the child is completely unafraid - walking into it, part of it.
It’s not framed like a dream. It is a dream. A lived one. A memory of safety. A space where the self was intact.
It’s the double lens of Helen Latham’s work that makes it extraordinary.
She’s not just painting children or painting as a child might. She’s doing something far more rare: she’s inhabiting the inner world of childhood from within, and then rendering it with the full consciousness, technique, and sophistication of an adult artist.
The paintings don’t just show a child’s world - they are a child’s world, felt from the inside. Embodied, luminous, tactile, real.
They don’t illustrate - they remember. But not as an adult recalling the past. As if the past itself is still living, breathing, and available through the skin.
Helen has just joined the Masters section. That feels exactly right.