Fundraising for the Red Cross – art can make a difference…

Win an original print

Choose from 4 designs and enter the prize draw. 100% of your donation will go to the Red Cross. I will cover transaction fees and delivery costs, wherever you are in the world. You’re welcome!

The prints are professionally produced using light-fast inks on archival paper. They are either 12” (30cm) square or 12.5” x 8” (35cm x 20cm), depending on your choice. You can enter to win all 4 prints, donating £3 for each entry.

Enter using your email address. Then check your email inbox (or spam) for instructions on how to donate. I will be announcing the winner in my 28 February newsletter

Gallery shot of one of Helen Arthur's prints available in a prize draw raising funds for Red Cross

Which is your favourite?

  • fine art print by Welsh artist Helen Arthur

    "Powder and ice-cream hills" (Dylan Thomas)

    There’s something here in the pink of that distant field, right next to the chocolate and banana hues of the adjacent slopes, that reminded me of Neopolitan ice-cream… So I couldn’t believe it when I found this quotation in Dylan Thomas’s memoir, A Child’s Christmas in Wales. Gave me the perfect title!

  • fine art print by Helen Arthur Welsh landscape artist

    "The headlong moon" (Dylan Thomas)

    This painting features a day time full moon – one I witnessed recently, an early morning in February, hanging over Offa’s Dyke path. I see this ridge from my house, painted as a blue slope here. We tend to give full moons quirky names; in fact, February’s is called the Snow Moon, but I fell in love with Dylan’s “The headlong moon”. It seemed the perfect quotation to lift from his rich imagination.

  • Fine art print by Helen Arthur landscape artist

    "We rode the daft and happy hills" (Dylan Thomas)

    In the Olchon Valley, right on the border between Wales and England, you get these steep-sided hills and farmers are undeterred in creating field boundaries high up. It makes for dramatic, distant views which I enjoy from the seat of my (electric) bike. Biking is the best way to see the landscape in “slow time”. (I think Dylan Thomas was referring to pony-riding, but… you know…)

  • "The harp-shaped hills" (Dylan Thomas)

    There’s so much in this quotation isn’t there? The harp as iconic to Welsh culture (along with choirs); sound travels differently across these big landscapes among hills, and the sandstone beacons form unusual fin-like peaks, just like a harp… It’s a perfect title for the design of this small painting. The harp shape really is carved into this landscape by hedgerows and thickets, with the Beacons distant and misty in the background.

Dylan Thomas finds weird and wonderful descriptors to depict the Welsh landscape in his poetry. His memoir poem, “A Child’s Christmas in Wales”, became a rich source for titles in my new series of Brecon Beacons landscape paintings. I’m calling this group of 10 artworks, “Patchwork Field Patterns”.

I’m returning to my own child’s-eye view with this work, indulging in a lushly coloured palette and playful shape-drawing. Tragically, after I began making these joyful artworks, an earthquake has wreaked devastation in Syria and Turkey. Desperate to offer some sort of help, I had a light-bulb moment – I could commission fine art prints and offer the very first from each print edition as prizes in a draw. Submit your email here, then I will reply with information on how to enter.

I’ll also be personally adding 20% of any further sales of the original paintings and new print collection to the Red Cross donation.