I’m Helen, founder of Elluse.co.uk and Elluse.biz — a Manchester-based hybrid fine artist (BA Hons) and digital technologist.

My most recent work marks the start of a clearer commercial identity. It sits between urban life, rave culture and cityscapes, and asks an existential question: where do we sit between technology and nature — and between city life and the natural world? I move between canvas and screen, blending the physical depth of oil painting with the possibilities of digital tools.

I use digital media—including Adobe’s commercially safe generative AI as an ideas partner—to test compositions, sketch ideas and push concepts before committing them to canvas. The final paintings are built with archival materials, layered oil and acrylic techniques, and finished with signed certificates of authenticity — so collectors and galleries get both creative depth and solid provenance.

My earlier work was more personal and experimental, and it still runs through everything I make now. My practice is deliberately restless and hard to box in. I’m interested in politics, class, our relationship with animals, and the environmental damage we learn to ignore.

I don’t follow the mainstream — or the art world — 100%. More like 80%. The rest is me carving out a path as a working-class artist who wants to make a living without sanding off where I come from.

Elluse.biz

Alongside my canvas work, I run Elluse.biz — an art-led fashion and interiors label where I turn my paintings and illustrations into limited-run patterns for wallpaper, fabric and upcycle projects. It’s for people who’d rather wear the artwork, live with it on their walls and furniture, or cut it into something new, than keep art at a distance.

Follow me on Instagram:
@elluse_studio (Paintings & Process) |
@elluseshop (Patterns & Wallpaper)

Helen aka Elluse