Helen Pakeman is an artist who likes to tackle difficult subjects, using art to start a conversation. Originally a printmaker, she now works in fibre, basketry, weaving and textiles and is particularly interested in working with foraged fibres from the hedgerows. She has just completed a 2 year Diploma in Art and Contemporary Craft at West Dean College in Sussex and the exhibition at the Old Fire Station is her final project. She makes work in order to understand the world and her place within it. In these times of information overload, work made by hand necessitates a slowing down and gives space to be and to think. Her intention is to make beautiful work about difficult subjects.

She has shown in the Copeland Gallery, Peckham, Bankside Gallery, London, and Bristol West of England Academy. She offers workshops in relief printing and lives just outside Faringdon, Oxfordshire.