“When a landscape becomes meaningful to you, it gets under your skin to create vivid memories. My paintings and process represent an emotional response to landscape…”

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The wild light in the Rhinogydd, where Helen has been walking since her teens, impacts her creativity in an inescapable way.  Every layer of paint and each bold brushstroke or detailed etching mark invites the viewer to reconnect with how they feel, fully immersed in nature.

Helen is curious and exploratory and has innovated and discovered her own vision. She loves working with oil and cold-wax with a palette knife for texture. She grew up in North Wales, in Llandudno and Talsarnau, but left to study at Cambridge before beginning a digital media career with the BBC in London. When she relocated to the Welsh borders with her husband and two young children, she felt she had finally returned home. This homecoming released latent creativity, and she took up printmaking (2017), which developed into a love of painting four years later.