The outdoors surrounding her home in the highlands allows Helena to interact and observe her subjectmatter intently.
Helena has always been drawn to Big Sky Country and spends a lot of her time walking in wild places, climbing mountains and swimming in the sea. This is the life source or her painting. She layers and removes painting to capture the nature of fleeting light, the nuances of seasons, and liminal spaces where hills give way moorland, peat to bog and sea to sand. She is interested in how material behaviour such as absorption, layering, removaland viscosity can evoke the shifting, unstable and unpredictable qualities of landscape. Her fascination with paint and its inherently turbulent qualities connects directly to her perspective on landscape and its own malleability. This dialogue between material and place underpins her practice.