Walton Colliery Nature Park, 14th October, acrylic on paper, Helen Thomas, 2024

Nature: Sensory
Nature: Sensory is a project co-ordinated by artists Michelle Duxbury and Sam Metz. It centres alternative readings and understanding of landscape that are wider than the visual and incorporate other senses. The project responds creatively to disabled artists who have different bodyminds and who find joy in exploring green spaces with touch, sound, movement, taste and smell. It will profile disabled artists and support those that cannot access both green spaces and cultural spaces easily. In inviting disabled artists to create artwork responding to their sensory interpretation Nature: Sensory will create artwork that is beyond expected understanding of landscape.

Nature: Sensory is funded with a Culture Grant from Wakefield Council, as part of Our Year – Wakefield District 2024. The exhibition is also supported by The Art House.

Nature: Sensory website (coming soon)

Please check with The Art House before travelling to see the exhibition.
Nature: Sensory exhibition details on The Art House website

A series of small, landscape format paintings. The paintings, are densely covered in organic shapes in shades of green, with flecks of pink and patches of sky blue.
Walton Colliery Nature Park, 4th October to 20th November 2024, acrylic on paper, Helen Thomas
Installation view of a painting titled 'Seeing between the looking, painting between the seeing'. Light from a large window filters throgh brushstrokes on layers of translucent paper.
Seeing between the looking, painting between the seeing, installation view at The Art House
Acrylic on layered translucent paper, Helen Thomas, 2025