Helen Scalway is an independent artist and writer. She was connected as an artist for many years to the Department of Geography at Royal Holloway, University of London. She thinks about repetition, variation and change in thinking about the self as spatial process, including pattern, scale and mood and is always concerned to evoke the vibration of life through lively mark making.

Increasingly she has become interested in the metaphor of the house or built structure, its garden and its surrounds, as a visual metaphor for aspects of the self.

In order to think she uses visual means such as drawing, painting, collage, charting, model-making and book structures, writing.

This site also shows works from early projects such as ‘Travelling Blind’, mappings of journeys on the Tube made by passengers on the London Underground as they waited for their trains, and an experimental chart based on listening to retired submariners in the Royal Navy Submarine Museum at Gosport.