Helen Tarr
has BA and MA degrees in Fine Art and is a qualified art tutor with over 20 years'teaching experience. Alongside her regular classes at Midlands Arts Centre in Birmingham Helen also teaches classes and workshops from her studio at her home in East Staffordshire. She has exhibited widely and her work is in private collections in Britain and abroad. Helen has a YouTube channel where she shares painting demonstrations and has produced exclusive videos for PaintersOnline Studio members. Her work is available from www.BritishContemporary.Art and www.helentarr.co.uk
Have you ever watched someone painting and thought ‘they make it look so easy'? I have heard people make this comment after watching me at work and it has really given me pause for thought. As a life-long painter I have had a lot of practice at what I do but each new painting brings new challenges and, of course, if it really was easy it wouldn't be half as interesting. Constantly setting and meeting new challenges is what makes it all so compelling and this of course involves an element of risk. Any impression of effortlessness is really down to an acceptance that mistakes
