Helen Glassford was born in Lancaster in 1976. She studied at Carlisle Art College for a year before going on to the Fine Art Drawing and Painting degree course at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art, Dundee graduating in 2002. Glassford finds her subject in the wild landscape of Scotland, using a variety of mediums, including graphite and scumbled glazes, to react and capture the immensity of nature before her. She exhibits throughout the UK and lives and works in Newport-on-Tay.