Helen Bur gives us exceptionally beautiful portraits that, if on canvas, could easily grace any living room. During The Crystal Ship, this British artist draws her inspiration from the ‘Theater Aan Zee 2019’-theme ‘involvement’. In Ostend you won’t find large-scale works by her hand but dozens of smaller portraits of local citizens, painted on their own facades. Strong images: technically refined, but mostly memorable.
In Ostend, Helen visited the citizens who donated their facades to The Crystal Ship and photographed them from behind. Her painted copies of these photographs now enliven the streetscape as small-scale art interventions. Fun detail: The subjects are always walking. This allows Helen to infuse her work with a dynamic energy that is absent in static images. Helen’s work also matches the theme of Theater aan Zee 2019: ‘involvement’.
