HELEN HANSON SBA

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 flora are 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. As with

etching, she builds up lines, layers and textures, keeping to a restricted palette which best echoes the mood of the landscape.