Helen Clapcott

For nearly thirty years, Helen Clapcott has been painting the town of Stockport, concentrating on the changes that have taken place in its urban identity. Her chosen medium has been tempera - traditionally an egg-based emulsion for fixing pigment to prepared panels. The paint is opaque and dries to a gorgeous velvety sheen. Most often tempera is lightly stippled onto a gesso ground in small controlled patches. A composition is built up gradually, by increments. Read more...

By the River
16x20cm
£1400
SOLD

The Green
15x18cm
£1300

The viaduct
19x29cm
£1600
SOLD

The River
8x21cm
£850
SOLD

Brinksway Friday afternoon (2003 to 2004)
38x54cm
£3500
SOLD

Brinksway_ (1975)
Watercolour
9x14cm
£900

Brinksway (1980)
21x30cms
£1500

End of Beehive Mill (2006)
23x37cm
£2500

Fire Escapes (2006)
28x34cm
£2500

Following the Valley (2005)
22x20cm
£1300

King Mill Brinksway (1982)
32x48cm
£2500

Mill Clearance (2004 to 2005)
24x34cm
£2500

Palmer Mill (2005)
35x65cm
£5000
SOLD

Portwood Tiviot Dale (1997)
47x50cm
£5000

Runcorn Sky (2006)
17x26cm
£1950

Stockport (2003)
61x50cm
£5000
SOLD

The Brick Field (2004 to 2006)
46x60cm
£5000

The Viaduct from Wellington Road (2003)
25x36cm
£3000

Tiviot Dale and the Beehive Mills (1995)
47x60cm
£5500

Tiviot Dale Demolition (1994)
53x42cm
£5000

Viaduct School Walk (2003 to 2005)
30x60cm
£5500
SOLD

Wasteground (2006)
21x27cm
£1950

These beautifully executed works depict the mutation and evolution of a once industrial valley, now a commuter corridor. Stockport has been dominated by 'the three Rs' - river, rail and road - and now boasts a motorway with its congestion of roundabouts and sliproads. Helen Clapcott's paintings have been continuously researched through drawing on location, each laboured over for periods of six months to two years. They are not critical, nor do they defend a cause or corner. They are a celebration of light, and show a deep appreciation of a unique landscape.

Born in Blackpool and now living in Macclesfield with illustrator Ian Pollock, Helen Clapcott studied Fine Arts at Liverpool Polytechnic and the Royal Academy Schools and has received both a Green Shield Foundation Award and the David Murray Landscape Award. She has had one-woman exhibitions at Stockport Art Gallery; Salford City Art gallery; The Scolar Fine Art Gallery, London; The Burlington Gallery, London; The New Ashgate Gallery, Farnham; and has exhibited regularly at the Royal Academy Summer Exhibitions. For more of her work, please visit Helen Clapcott's personal website.