Exhibitions & Events
Forthcoming
The Scottish Gallery • Major Solo Exhibition • Edinburgh Festival 2027
Selected Exhibitions: 2020 – 2026
John Martin Gallery at Spirit Studios Suffolk • A Day in May • July - August 2026
Strathearn Gallery • Solo Exhibition Following a Changing Light • 2025
The Scottish Gallery • Solo Exhibition The Phenomenal World • Nov – Dec 2024
Tatha Gallery • 10 Year Anniversary Exhibition • April 2024
RSW Open Exhibition • 2023
Mall Galleries • Discerning Eye • 2023
The Scottish Gallery • Miniaturist Exhibition • Nov – Dec 2023
Gallery 8, Duke Street • Modern Masters London • June 2023
Strathearn Gallery • Solo Exhibition Every Waking Moment • May - June 2023
The Scottish Gallery • Solo Exhibition Encounters • April 2022
Affordable Art Fair Battersea • August 2021 & 22
Resipole Gallery • Solo Exhibition Everything In-Between • May – June 2021
The Scottish Gallery • Realist and Lyrical Landscapes • September 2020
Tatha Gallery • Three person exhibition with John Brown and Nerine Tassie • July 2020
Battersea Affordable Art Fair • March 2020
Selected Exhibitions: 2014 – 2019
Hampstead Affordable Art Fair • 9-12th May 2019
Tatha Gallery • Solo exhibition Immerse • June - August 2019
Tatha Gallery • Depth of Field with Kate Downie and Paul Furneaux • 2018
Hampstead Affordable Art Fair • 2018
Fabriano In Acquarello • Fabriano, Italy • 2018
Affordable Art Fair Hampstead • 2017
Tatha Gallery • Elements with Matthew Draper and Dawnne McGeachy • 2017
Lime Tree Gallery • 2017
RSW at Lillie Gallery • 2016
Tatha Gallery • Promised Land with Calum McClure, Catherine Davison and Doug Cocker RSA • 2016
Edinburgh Art Fair • with David Cass, Calum McClure and Christopher Wood RSW • 2016
London Affordable Art Fair • 2016
Bristol Art Fair • 2016
Pittenweem Arts Festival • 2016
RSW Open Exhibition • 2015
RSA Open Exhibition • 2015
Tatha Gallery • Summer Exhibition with David Cass, Claire Harkess and Janet Melrose • 2015
Iona House Gallery • 2015
Edinburgh Art Fair with Paul Furneaux, Janet Melrose and Morag Muir • 2015
PAI Open Exhibition • 2015
Education
2002: Masters of Fine Art, Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art. Dundee, Scotland
1995–1998: BA (Hons) Fine Art, Drawing & Painting. Duncan of Jordanstone
1994–1995: Foundation in Art & Design. Cumbria Institute of the Arts, Carlisle, Cumbria
Awards
2023: Watermark Award at the RSW
2023: Elected professional member of the RSW (Royal Scottish Society of Painters in Watercolour)
2021: Elected professional member of VAS (Visual Arts Scotland)
2020: Shortlisted in the Castlegate Prize
2007: Runner up in the Jolomo Lloyds TSB Landscape Painting Awards
2001: MFA Scholarship, Duncan of Jordanstone
1999: The Armour Award, Royal Glasgow Institute
1998: Cuthbert New Young Artist Award, The Royal Glasgow Institute
1998: Highland Spring Purchase Prize
1998: Sir Robin Philipson Memorial Medal, Royal Scottish Academy
Public Collections
McManus Art Gallery, Dundee
Paintings in Hopsitals, Dundee Collection
Many private collections worldwide
Selected Curatorial
Tay Projects 2018 • David Mach, Arthur Watson, Marian Leven, Doug Cocker, Derrick Guild, Calum Colvin, Kate Downie, Alan Greig, David Cass, Robert Macmillan and Ruth Nicol
Not as it Seems 2018 • Jai Llewelyn, Sharon Quigley and James Lumsden
Connections 2017 • David Cass, Jackie Anderson, Jenny Pope, Lucia Gomez and Helen Denerley
Roots and Wings 2017 • Freya Payne, Ade Adesina and Kirsty Lorenz
Generations of Colour 2017 • Calum McClure and David McClure
Ghostlands 2016 • Kate Downie RSA, Robbie Bushe and Ronald Plowman
Yours Sincerely 2016 • Alan Macdonald, Joyce Gunn Cairns, Ruth Stiven
Confluence 2015 • Marian Leven and Will Maclean
Lost Colonists 2015 • Derek Guild, Chris Orr, Eddie Summerton
The Newport Circle 2015 • Arthur Watson, Ronnie Forbes, Alan Robb, Joyce Cairns, Doug Cocker, Will Maclean, Marian Leven, Grant Clifford, Frances Walker, Richard Demarco
Imagine 2015 • James Castle, Joe Fan, Lennox Dunbar
Coastlines 2014 • joint curation with Arthur Watson PRSA • Frances Walker RSA
Life Cycles 2014 • joint curation with Ronnie Forbes RSA • Alastair Ross RSA and Grant Clifford RSA
Portable Landscapes 2014 • Richard Demarco RSA, Dawson Murray RSW and Ann Oram RSW
Beginnings 2014 • Joyce Cairns RSA, Alan Robb RSA and Doug Cocker RSA
“The concern with edges; sea-strands and beaches, hill-tops and horizons. The fascination with fluid boundaries; tide-lines, weather-fronts, cloud formations, scudding skies. The appeal to an unsettled, fluctuating, mobile landscape. All of this references the contingent, liminal, world where everything is in a process of being and becoming. This is surely the magic of these paintings.”
“I enter the studio with time, memory and place in mind and with the premonition that new moments will soon be discovered...”
“Helen Glassford offers an immersive experience of landscape, her vision veiled in imagination, colour swiftly washed in and sponged off, layering like memory, the magical equivalent of her original inspiration.”
“[Helen’s] are powerful works, full of heartfelt passion, craft, skill and integrity.”
“...Helen Glassford finds abstract beauty in a landscape of light over water.”
“As a painter, Helen Glassford brings a softness to her work, which nudges its way into the visual memory of the beholder. Her abstract landscapes reveal a deft touch and are in possession of a lilting approach to colour and tone. Everything in its place and a place for everything.”