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To the amazement of all the pupils, teachers, parents, governors, cooks, canteen assistants and caretakers of Ysgol Brynhyfryd comprehensive school, this child went on to become Head Girl. But then it was the seventies... |
| Serious stuff like higher education, degrees
and all that could wait. First there was eight years of idle amusement to
be had. Much of it in France, swanning about in the sun and on fast motorbikes
and even faster cars at speeds her mother, the gendarmerie and Helen herself
would not now approve. All this time Canis Lupus was kept from the door by, amongst other things, working as a translator in a shipping office in Marseille. Seen here as hired-in party guest for the court of Louis XVI. |
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Procrastination over. Time to look for a
university town where it rains as much as at home. Helen chose Liverpool
Poly to study for her fine art degree. It was during this period that she had her first, of hardly any, brushes with the law. Liverpool city council commissioned this sculpture of Eleanor Rigby by Tommy Steele. Of the planned group of art-critic protestors, Helen's was the lone voice yelling "Save the art school" during the unveiling ceremony. The remainder having chickened out. One short trip in a police van later and the name of Helen Job goes down in British criminal history. |
| She would have been able to regale her grandchildren with tales of derring-do and hazy days of protest at Greenham Common - had she not missed the bus, then got lost on the way, not to mention her reluctance to spend a night in a filthy tent with "those" women. And there was no shower. And never mind cruise missiles - where were the loos? |
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After the degree course Helen worked a while
in a gallery in Liverpool. Other attempts at office job conformity were
to be equally short-lived. The secretary, the temp, and, heaven forfend,
the building society clerk. Ultimately the pull of the Welsh drizzle was too strong and Helen headed for home. To her paintbrushes... Today, she is assisted in her studio by a Jack Russell bitch called Tosca, whom Helen loves dearly. |
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Exhibitions include : Royal Cambrian Academy |
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Helen Job... hates waste As well as abstract and figurative work, Helen also, on occasion, likes to paint fences. |
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