Helen Seddon (British 1891-1975)  Cornish School watercolour painting.
Always known for her floral depictions and landscapes, this is a super rustic garden scene with a wooden gate set in a stone wall, bearing a "For Sale" sign  - of presumably plants in the glorious summer garden beyond the gate. A lovely example of her work. 
Signed lower left. Image within mount aperture 27 x 23.5 cm, glazed frame 40 x 36 cm. 

Biography researched and written by MastheadArt:
Helen Seddon (British 1891-1975). Baptised Helen Priscilla Seddon in Shropshire in May 1891, Helen was still in Shropshire in the 1901 and 1911 census, in both cases residing at the home of her uncle, a clergyman.
In 1914 she appears on the electoral roll in Otago, New Zealand as, indeed, her father was in New Zealand working as  sheep farmer (Thomas Rowley Seddon, died in NZ in 1896). 
Helen painted mainly floral studies and was active from the early 1920's when she arrived on the art scene in St Ives in Cornwall, studying under Charles Simpson and Fred Milner, exhibiting with the St Ives Society of Artists from 1923 and subsequently the Society of Women Artists. Helen was quite a traveller. In November 1919 she had sailed into Liverpool on the Minnedosa which had come across the Atlantic from Canada, listed as a 28 yr old artist with an Edinburgh address of 3, Spylaw Road. Helen had studied art in Edinburgh.
In 1928 she is listed as a passenger on the Prinses Juliana on 11th October sailing to Genoa in Italy, arriving back on the Johan De Witt from Genoa, into Southampton on 14th December. Her address is in the manifest as 17 The Warren, St Ives and that address remained her home and became her "Morvah Studio". 
In 1933 her address was still 17 The Warren, St Ives, when she sailed into London aboard the Moldavia, shown as an "Artist" on the ship's passenger manifest, having embarked in Sydney, Australia.
In 1939 she had an Audrey Seddon (born 1918) staying with her in St Ives, a "student".
Joining the Women's Land Army in July 1940 in Worcestershire her address was given as her St Ives Studio and she remained enlisted until March 1945. Helen was still exhibiting in St Ives in the 1950s alongside Dorcie Sykes, Peter Lanyon and, Charles Breaker, John A Park, Dorothea Sharp (with whom she was great friends), and Sven Berlin. Helen was still exhibiting with the St Ives Society of Artists in the 1960's alongside Bouverie Hoyton, Garlick Barnes, Gwen Whicker, and Hyman Segal.
Helen's death is recorded in St Ives on 24th April 1975 with her address remaining as 17 The Warren. 
        

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