Helen Glassford artist menu: Scottish abstract landscape painter

Helen Glassford


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Helen Glassford is a graduate of the MFA postgraduate art course at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design. Originally from Cumbria, she is now based in Dundee, Scotland. Helen has been exhibiting her work widely throughout the UK since the mid 1990’s, and has won a number of awards, including runner up at the Jolomo Lloyds TSB Landscape Painting Awards 2007, 'The Sir Robin Phillipson Memorial Medal' at the Royal Scottish Academy Students Exhibition, the 'Cuthbert New Young Artist' award and the prestigious 'Armour Award' at the Royal Glasgow Institute. Helen Glassford’s paintings are in essence abstractions of the Scottish landscape in which she finds herself immersed. Her painting is in a constant state of flux, a condition perpetuated by her experience of the shifting weather systems that roll inexorably across this landscape, as a counterpoint to the slow creep of geological time. She reacts freely to the immensity of nature before her, attempting both to capture the spirit of place, and humanity’s transient experience of it. Three stunning new paintings will be shown at Edinburgh Art Fair, 19th - 22nd November 2009.