Helen Purdie has a painting exhibition this weekend Torrox.

You can find the exhibition at Nº25, Calle Cebadillask Altas in Torrox. Viewing times are from 11.00h to 19.00h.

Here is information about her from her own website: I am a self-taught artist living in Andalucia having moved from Sheffield to Spain in 2020. I love the outdoors and can now swim in the sea and walk in the mountains regularly as both are only a few minutes from my home in the beautiful pueblo of Torrox.

It is exciting to see how living in Spain will impact my art. The intensity of the blue sky in Andalucia is so affecting and literally soothes my autistic brain. I have no doubt it will find it’s way into many more of my paintings to come.

Despite being passionate about art when young, I made a conscious decision as a teenager not to go to art school, sensing that I would be challenged in ways that could pit me against my creativity and damage that relationship. Instead I chose to become a nurse – a most unlikely decision at the time but one which brought me more experience, skills and self-insight than I could ever have anticipated. I worked in the NHS for twenty years, latterly within surgery and surgical education research, leaving this very fulfilling career to pursue my art in 2011. It was a purposeful decision, even though I had not painted since leaving school. Painting has been core to my life ever since.

I was confirmed to be autistic in 2016 at the age of 46. Understanding my autistic nature has been life-changing for me. I love to be social but spending a lot of time on my own is essential for my well-being. My studio paintings often take me hundreds of hours of precise painting and I see this time at the easel as a natural expression of my unique autistic nature.

I am passionate about people understanding their own and other’s autistic reality, facilitating on-line workshops in ‘Creativity, Well-being and Lived Autistic Experience’. Do contact me if you would like to know more about this work.

Many of my paintings and drawings have sold and are held within private, public and corporate collections worldwide.”

All enquiries regarding her practice and individual works are very welcome and can be made by contacting her via helen.purdie@hotmail.co.uk or +34 641 594 635. or viewing her webpage: https://helenpurdie.co.uk.

(News/Cultural: Torrox, Axarquia, Costa del sol, Malaga, Andalucia)

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