Glassford is a painter who seeks out the edges of landscape, travelling to the most remote and distant corners in search of subject matter. Her travels have taken her to the Outer Hebrides and to the outlying archipelago of St Kilda. A trip to Assynt in November provided further opportunity to engage with the ancient landscape of Scotland’s high northwest. Glassford cherishes her time spent in the wilds of Scotland. Each trip in the outdoors, sketchbook in hand, is a journey of personal revelation, her dialogue with the landscape akin to a meditative response as she absorbs the geography and atmosphere of a particular place .
About Helen Glassford
Helen Glassford (b.1976, Lancaster) is a Scottish painter whose atmospheric oil paintings explore the emotional and sensory experience of landscape. Living and working in Newport-on-Tay, Fife, Glassford draws deeply from her encounters with the remote and weather-beaten regions of Scotland, particularly the Highlands and northern coastlines. Her paintings are less descriptions of specific places than immersive responses to memory, atmosphere, light and the physical experience of being within the landscape.
