Helen Hanson

Biography

Helen Hanson taught Languages before becoming a professional printmaker. She exhibited with Greenwich Printmakers for 23 years and was a founder member of South Bank Printmakers, with landscape etchings in galleries throughout the UK. She is a former Council Member of the Society of Women Artists, and was for many years a Fellow of the Society of Botanical Artists and winner of the President’s Award for her work. In her landscape etchings, pattern, texture and mood give a sense of place and regional flora are always important. After many years spent turning the press, Helen now specialises in landscape using ink and coloured pencil. This evolved as a natural successor to etching, and she has made this unusual combination of media very much her own. Helen now teaches and introduces landscape in ink and coloured pencil to others through a range of courses. She tutors locally and at Higham Hall in Cumbria, Missenden School of Creative Arts and for the Field Studies Council at Flatford Mill. Her first book "Landscape in Ink and Coloured Pencil" was published in June 2022 by Crowood Press, and she is currently working on the next, with focus on the natural world in ink and coloured pencil. Botanical work remains a parallel interest, and she tutors a well-established local coloured pencil course in Deal, Kent. For more details and images visit www.helenhanson.co.uk