Featured exhibition 2026

A Day in May
John Martin Gallery at Spirit Studios Suffolk

“Helen's oil paintings draw on her memory, experience and observation of the remote areas of Scotland. She seeks out the atmosphere, the intangible and unseen through her expressive land and mindscapes. Constructing full environments, a visual echo of experience, connecting the wild with the past and present and connecting the intimate with the vast.  Always touching upon human relationship with nature the multi layering of the senses is in constant flux within the surface of her work. Serenity, melancholy, the sublime, remoteness, absence, and belonging soak in through the surfaces. They are places without names, but often looking to the North. Shaping space with simple washes and minimal brushwork in places suggesting movement or at other times building layers slowly and surely with pigment and glazes to reflect time passing. Overlapping folds and seams, paint poured wet into wet revealing marks and edges, lifted and reapplied with rags, brushes, large squeegees. An echo of the effects of weather and light in the North. Most are transitional spaces where reality is not demanded but also not ignored.”