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Landscape Artist Helen L Robertson

Scotland

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About

I have lived and worked as full time artist in the small village of Ratagan in the West Highlands of Scotland, near the Isle of Skye since 1988.

 

As a landscape artist I’m obsessed by the light.

The coruscating light on water or the reflected sunlight, mirrored on wet sand. 

I walk, climb and stay in places to absorb their atmosphere and unique qualities. 

I draw and paint outside where all of my senses come alive and hopefully give my work expression and life. I want the viewer to feel the emotion and wonder that I have experienced in that place and enjoy the raw beauty of nature.

 

The feeling of working outside in the elements is both challenging but vital to capturing the essence of a place. 

I use sketchbooks working very quickly usually using ink with perhaps a found feather or stick, to capture the mood and atmosphere of the landscape.

Or I work on a larger scale with inks, watercolours and soft pastels. These works are sometimes finished in situ or are used back in my studio to inform even larger works.

Often I return to the same place again and again as the light, the weather and the seasons alway offer something new to inspire me.

 

I worked solely in pastel for many years however recently I've been enjoying the freedom of mixed media.  I flood the paper with acrylic inks and watercolours, letting colours collide and mix. I feel that when you are not in complete control of a medium is when the magic can really happen.

Once dry I use soft pastel to bring out areas of detail, sometimes blending it on top the paint or using it to give detail and definition.

I like the contrast of having areas that are highly worked against areas of simple lines, marks or pools of colour. Often I spend time deciding what not to add to a painting, as opposed to what to add.

Admirers of Helen's work have often commented on how the paintings make them feel transported to that place.

 

My work is sold in galleries throughout Scotland and online, selling to private collectors worldwide.

 

AWARDS

Sir William Gillies Award 

presented at the 142nd Royal Scottish Society of Painters in Watercolour Annual Open Exhibition 2023

TO PURCHASE A PAINTING

If you would like to purchase a painting, please use the contact button at the top of the page or click on my email address at the bottom of the page. Thank you.

STUDIO VISITS

Helen's studio is in Ratagan  IV40 8HX   9 miles east of Eilean Donan Castle. 

Please use the Contact button (Top left of page)  or phone 07802 545243 to make an appointment.

COMMISSIONS

Helen accepts commissions. Please contact her for details.

ABOUT

Paintings

PAINTINGS

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GALLERIES AND EXHIBITIONS

Galleries & Exhibitions

2023 EXHIBITIONS

 

21st Jan - 16th Feb  Royal Scottish Academy  RSW Annual Exhibition

11th - 31st May  Gallery An Talla Dearg Isle Ornsay  Isle of Skye IV43 8QR

You can see my work in the following Galleries :

Glasgow Gallery, Glasgow G2 4HG

Castle Gallery, Inverness IV2 3DU

Carron Gallery, Strathcarron IV54 8YX

Gallery An Talla Dearg Isle Ornsay  Isle of Skye IV43 8QR

Logie Steading Art Gallery, Forres

Tippycanoe, Portree, Skye

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2002-22  An Talla Dearg Gallery, Isleornsay, Skye

2020    Torrance Gallery , Edinburgh

2017 Steading Gallery, Balmacara

2011  Castle Gallery , Inverness

2008 Byre Theatre Gallery, St Andrews

2008 MacGregor Fine Art, Glasgow

2007 Carby Art Gallery, Aberdeen

2001 Scone Studios, Perth

1994 Stables Gallery, London

1991 Eden Court Gallery, Inverness

1987-88 Ware on Earth Gallery, Edinburgh

 

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2020 Moy Mackay Gallery, Peebles

2019 Torrance Gallery,  Edinburgh

2013- 2021 Castle Gallery, Inverness

2010 - 19 Lochalsh Art Fair, Dornie

2014 Holroyd Gallery, Ballahulish

2014 Beauly Gallery

2013 Edinburgh Art Fair, Edinburgh

2013 Julian Jardine Gallery, Perth

2012  Edinburgh Art Fair

2012 Nicole Porter Gallery, Aberdeen

2012 Inchmore Art Gallery , Inverness

2009 Logie Steadings Gallery, Forres

2007 Edinburgh Art Fair

2006 Cambridge Art Fair

2004 Green Gallery, Germany

1993 Spey Bay Gallery, Speyside

Contact

contact

helen@helenlrobertson.com

Tel: 07802 545 243  or  01599 537 150

2 MacInnes Place  Ratagan  Kyle of Lochalsh  IV40 8HX 

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