Helen Glassford

Films • Helen Glassford

Film made to accompany Encounters at The Scottish Gallery April 2022. Includes locations in The Western Isles, St Kilda and Assynt

Short film with Scottish Gallery Director Tommy Zyw discussing work in the my studio in North East Fife

I am very pleased to share a new film made to accompany Realist and Lyrical Landscapes at The Scottish Gallery, Edinburgh.

2nd - 26th September 2020

Filmed in 2019, the below is an excerpt from French-German production company Arte’s Metropolis: Dundee, featuring Helen in her home and studio in Newport-on-Tay.

Full film and credits can be found here

I am passionate about paint and happy to share some clips I have made of some of my processes. Works on paper are quickly built up and are instinctive. Oils, given my considered techniques are layered and glazed over days and weeks, sometimes years. The larger works come into being after an extended period of concentration. There will be a point where ‘flow state’ is reached where external influences are no longer present and choices are made intuitively in reaction to the marks made before and the intention in mind. Over time I intend for this page to build into a series of ‘painting bytes’ to allow you to attain a bigger picture of how I work.