The Phenomenal World is Helen Glassford’s second major exhibition with The Scottish Gallery. Glassford’s oil paintings draw on her memory, experience and observation of the remote areas of Scotland. They are places without names, but often looking to the north. Glassford works to shape space with simple washes and minimal brushwork suggesting movement, or at other times by building layers slowly and surely with pigment and glazes to reflect time passing.
Helen’s work is above all true to the north: observed fugacity, following a changing light, the stormspeed changes of weather, is vital to the depiction of northern realities. – Professor Peter Davidson
