Helen Moore
Taking the striking landscape of the north Highlands as her starting point, Helen Moore’s work addresses themes of how rural space is used in the modern day, and the impact that humans make in the environment.
Helen includes everyday objects in the forefront of the landscape of her paintings. These touches provide the human aspect of living in a rural community. As an artist she is drawn to the textures and details of the corroding materials of industrial buildings, the plastic wrapped around fences, the leftovers of everyday life and industry both present and past, and the effects of passing visitors. Never intrusive, these everyday objects hint at the lives of the people here and their day-to-day activities.
Originally from Yorkshire, where she trained at Bradford College of Art, Helen Moore has lived in the far north of Scotland for 17 years, and her landscape painting combines the mix of urban and rural that reflects this.
Bio
Helen Moore graduated from Bradford Art College with a BA Hons in Fine Art in 2003. Helen moved from her home in West Yorkshire to Caithness in the North Highlands in 2007 where she worked as gallery exhibition organiser from 2008 until beginning to work full time as an artist in 2018.
In March 2021 Helen began working part time as Education and Outreach Coordinator at Lyth Arts Centre while continuing to work as a professional visual artist. In 2021 Helen was awarded the Upright Gallery Award at the Society of Scottish Artists Exhibition which resulted in her solo exhibition at the Upright Gallery in Edinburgh in August 2022.
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