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About the artist
Helen Garrett’s paintings explore the eternal themes of love, fate and transience. ‘It is the mystery of life that inspires me as a painter.’ Find out more
One day you will wake alone
the dawn chorus
outside your window.
What called you once
together,
now teaching you
a new song
apart.
Pulled asunder but
the plumb line
between you
forever
intact.
Saving you from the depths
of your own
despair.