Helen Hanson is a professional Printmaker who shows her work in galleries throughout Britain.  She exhibited with Greenwich Printmakers for many years and was a founder member of South Bank Printmakers before moving to Deal. She is a member of the Society of Botanical Artists and in 2008 received the President’s Award.

Helen’s contemporary landscape etchings use pattern, texture and mood to give a sense of place and the local plantlife is always important.  Her etchings are on copper and make use of a range of traditional and innovative processes.  Each plate is inked individually in several colours and printed by the artist on hand-made paper in an edition of 50, 100 or 150.  Individual plant colours are added later in watercolour.

Helen has recently been moving into mixed media painting, combining acrylics and watercolour with graphite, pastel pencil and ink.  She works on paper and on board, building up lines, layers and textures and keeping to a restricted palette which best echoes the mood of the landscape.