Long-time Vancouverite, Helen Spaxman lives in the commercial drive neighbourhood on the east side of Vancouver. She attended Emily Carr College of Art and Design in the 80’s and graduated with honours.
Helen loves to manipulate materials, be it clay, yarn, paint, pastel, paper or plant material. But she also enjoys assisting other’s forays into creativity.
She has been instructing pottery classes for adults and clay classes for children at Britannia Community Services Centre since 1992.
She also designs and facilitates an assortment of art and literacy programs for Brit Centre and for the Canucks Family Education Centre, for a variety of age groups and class structures: toddlers, elementary-school aged children, teens, and parent and child together programs.