MAKING INTRODUCTIONS: Tyga Helme

Meet artist Tyga Helme in her studio on the Wiltshire Downs.
Trained at Edinburgh College of Art and The Royal Drawing School in London, where she won the Machin Foundation Prize, Tyga uses nature as a metaphor for feelings of being overwhelmed. She couples minute observation of the teeming forest floor - where the emerald green of a bramble leaf sits in stark juxtaposition to an array of cold blue silver leaves - with the flux and movement of unceasing growth.
A rising star in the new British Landscape movement her works embodies an awakening to the importance of the ground beneath our feet.
Although Tyga lives and works in the UK she won an Erasmus scholarship to study at the L’Ecole Nationale Superieue des Arts Decoratifs in Strasbourg and for more than a year taught at the International Institute for Arts, Modinagar in India.
Her work is held in held in a number of important collections including the Royal Collection.

[@wilmamccoul]

Wow! Intense, specific, enduring, and beautiful! Very dedicated to one area and I love that. It's amazing. Thank you for this!

[@suesobczak5469]

Fascinating video, beautiful work and lovely to hear Tyga's insights to her work. Walking in one small area everyday gives incredible insights into nature but astonishingly there is always something more to see.

[@perzeoh1]

verdadera y genuina artista, gracias.

[@julia_bethmann]

Taking time to see , love this!

[@juliedrake6279]

Extraordinary. Thank you

[@sharondowney3302]

Very beautiful and inspirational. Are your paints oils? Are the tiles pieces of linen? Thank you so much.

[@chelsee6453]

Precise and loose at the same time. I relate to seeing inspiration closer

[@jonnyboy9584]

Wow