Helen Glassford

Helen graduated from Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art in 1998 with a BA (Hons) in Fine Art, Drawing and Painting and an MFA in 2002. Originally from Cumbria, she is now based in North Fife, Scotland.She has exhibited her work widely throughout the UK since the mid 1990's and has won a number of awards, including 'The Sir Robin Phillipson Memorial Medal' at the Royal Scottish Academy Students Exhibition and the 'Cuthbert New Young Artist' award in 1998, the prestigious 'Armour Award' at the Royal Glasgow Institute of Fine Arts in 1999 and in 2007 Helen was runner up in the Jolomo Scottish landscape painting awards.Helens 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 ... [more]