Background
Helena McEwen was born in 1961 in Marchmont, Edinburgh, United Kingdom.
16 John Islip St, Westminster, London SW1P 4JU, United Kingdom
Helena McEwen studied at Chelsea School of Art (present-day Chelsea College of Arts), where she received a Bachelor of Arts degree with honors.
Hortensia Rd, Chelsea, London SW10 0QS, United Kingdom
Helena McEwen attended Kensington and Chelsea College, where she earned a city and guilds teacher's training certificate.
Helena McEwen
Helena McEwen
(Elizabeth can hardly accept that her brother James commit...)
Elizabeth can hardly accept that her brother James committed suicide, so when her sister Kitty dies too, it is more than she can comprehend. As she wanders the large family mansion of her childhood - a haunting place of mystery, wonder and opulence - the memories of an apparently idyllic but secretly threatening past will not let her go.
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1999
(Thirteen-year-old Cath is a new girl at a Catholic conven...)
Thirteen-year-old Cath is a new girl at a Catholic convent. She is afraid of the nuns, unused to the restriction and terrified of God. She finds refuge in nature and her friend Olive's vision of the starry limitless universe. Cath's sister Very is at art school in the seventies of Punk London. She lives a wild chaotic life with bedraggled artists, outrageous homosexuals and shadowy nightclub owners.
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2004
(When Evie and her father say good-bye at the train statio...)
When Evie and her father say good-bye at the train station, they are both on their own for the first time since her mother's death. But Evie is not lonely for long. At art school in London, she is quickly caught up in colors and critiques, gallery visits and sketching expeditions. She finds fiercely loyal friends Rob, pragmatic and pregnant, Bianca, dramatic and Italian, and Cecile, the sidelined ballerina, and stumbles tentatively toward a relationship with Zeb, a second-year sculptor with hair blue-black like a crow. But when her father arrives in the city, sour with alcohol and slumped on the doorstep of her new home, Evie must determine what she owes her past, and how it will shape the life, and the art, she's trying to create.
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2011
artist educator novelist author
Helena McEwen was born in 1961 in Marchmont, Edinburgh, United Kingdom.
Helena McEwen studied at Chelsea School of Art (present-day Chelsea College of Arts), where she received a Bachelor of Arts degree with honors in 1989. Also, she attended Kensington and Chelsea College, where she earned a city and guilds teacher's training certificate in 1995.
Helena McEwen began her career as a teacher of painting and drawing classes and workshops for adults and children at art galleries in Sheffield, England, between 1995 and 1998. After that, for two years, she was a teacher of painting at Kensington and Chelsea College in London. She took the same post there in 2003.
In 1997, Helena was a teacher of creative expression workshops. From 1999 to 2000, she held the position of a leader of arts activities at Chelsea Estates Youth Group. A year later, she served as a facilitator for Trinity Hospice (now Royal Trinity Hospice). Since 2000, she has been a full-time writer and artist. Moreover, she has mounted several exhibitions of her paintings. In 2004, Helena joined The Hypatia Trust, where she worked as a creative writing teacher for one year. Also, she was a part-time lecturer at University College Falmouth (present-day Falmouth University) in 2005-2006. Presently, she lives in London and gives readings from her works.
McEwen is an artist, who brings a painter's eye to her fiction. Her debut novel, The Big House (1999), has been compared to the work of such writers, as Katherine Mansfield and D. H. Lawrence. The story opens with the suicide of the narrator's brother, James, and the drowning death of her sister, Kitty. To cope with the loss of her siblings, the narrator, Elizabeth, returns to her childhood home and relives childhood memories. McEwen's second book, Ghost Girl (2004), while not a sequel, explores the next stage in the growth of a young girl. Cath is about thirteen, when her parents, posted to faraway lands, enroll her in a convent boarding school. They entrust her holiday supervision to older sister, Verity, a would-be artist, dwelling and looking for adventure in the bohemian neighborhoods of 1970's London. Helena's most recent novel, Invisible River (2011), has a heroine, who is herself sometimes a bit of a ghost girl and is just starting at Chelsea School of Art.
(Elizabeth can hardly accept that her brother James commit...)
1999(When Evie and her father say good-bye at the train statio...)
2011(Thirteen-year-old Cath is a new girl at a Catholic conven...)
2004