About the Artist

Helen Flockhart RSA RGI

Biography

My paintings emerge from an intuitive process, weaving the conscious and unconscious, making manifest an often fecund world which has a life and logic of its own.

I studied drawing and painting at Glasgow School of Art from 1980-85 and continue to live and work in Glasgow. Over the years I’ve held 20 solo exhibitions and have exhibited consistently over the years in London, Glasgow, Edinburgh, Europe, Canada and New York.

Bill Hare said of my work:

"Helen Flockhart has drawn her creative inspiration from a range of esoteric and mythical sources… Myth is an ideal stimulus for the febrile imagination of the artist, allowing her to delve into a world of profound mystery and intense yearning, where beauty is forever stalked by corruption… As Paul Klee stated, 'The purpose of art is not to reflect the visible, but to make the invisible visible.'”