* HELEN TABOR (BRITISH b. 1960) STILL LIFE WITH PEARS

oil on canvas, signed framed and under glass image size 91cm x 101cm, overall size 105cm x 115cm Note: Helen Tabor was born in Middlesex in 1960. After a career in teaching, including several years in The Himalayas, she settled in Scotland and became a freelance artist in 1997, combining bringing up a family with developing her painting career. Helen has exhibited regularly with Thompson’s Galleries in both London and Aldeburgh for more than 20 years. From childhood, Helen has had a passion for drawing and painting. After studying English and History at university, she travelled in India, taking a sketchbook and paints with her. She had her first exhibition in York based on her experiences. Following three years of teaching in the UK, she became a VSO teacher in the Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan, filling her baggage allowance with oil paints and rolls of canvas. She employed the local carpenter to make stretchers for her canvases and based her paintings on village people, landscapes and religious artefacts. Returning to the UK, starting a family and moving to Scotland brought a wealth of new inspiration in terms of landscape, seascape and a rich domestic life illustrated by many of the narrative themes in Helen’s figure paintings. As her children have grown up, the opportunity to travel again has provided new and exciting material, particularly evident in her paintings of Italy.