ABOUT
Helen Baines is attempting to reconcile something that is acutely felt with the substance of the landscape. She has a particular interest in the specificity of place; how stories imbue landscape with meaning and significance, notions of transcendence and our own personal geographies. It is an intimacy with the landscape and a sense of embeddedness that she seeks to locate in her work, and the slow process of painting is her means of searching, not for the bucolic, but for something more hazy that sits just outside her peripheral vision.
Collections
Victoria & Albert Museum Print Archive
Scarborough Art Gallery and Museum's Trust
Art Acumen Purchase for Freshfields' Annual Exhibition
Awards
Printmakers Council Prize, The Natural World, 2021
John Purcell Paper Prize, Ochre Print Studio, 2019
Printmakers Council Prize, Highgate Literary & Scientific Institution, 2013
Printmakers Council Student Award, Ochre Print Studio, 2013
Education
Turps East Sussex Programme 2025/26
Turps Painting Correspondence Course 2021/22, 2022/23, 2023/24
The Art Academy London Printmaking Certificate 2019-2021
BA (Honours) Graphic Design, Epsom School of Art (now UCA)
BTEC HND Art and Design, Richmond upon Thames College
Publications
’Making an Impression’ celebrating 50 years of the Printmakers Council
Group Exhibitions
2026 With No More Sound than Mice Make, Safehouses, Peckham
2026 Elsewhere Where Else, Safehouses, Peckham
2026 Occupied: Strange Company, Safehouses, Peckham
2026 Women's Day, Outhouse Gallery, Camberwell,
2025 Crowd Scene, Finch Gallery, London
2025 Striding Edge, Unprimed Collective,The Department Store, Brixton
2025 Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy of Arts
2025 NEAC Annual Exhibition, Mall Galleries
2025 Time to Time, Unprimed Collective, Safehouse, Peckham
2024 Layers, Unprimed Collective, The Department Store, Brixton
2024 Draw and Bite, Sevenoaks Kaleidoscope Gallery
2024 When Palmer met Blake, Adam's Gallery
2024 Embers, Weald Contemporary, Brighton
2024 Bury My Songs, Terrace Gallery
2023 Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy of Arts
2023 Annual Exhibition, Royal Scottish Academy
2023 Under Their Skin, One Paved Court, Richmond
2023 Do Not Swallow, Safehouse, Peckham
2023 Freshfields' Annual Exhibition : Art Acumen
2022 Material Presence, Fitzrovia Gallery
2022 ING Discerning Eye, Mall Galleries
2022 LOOP Artists in Print, Bankside Gallery
2021 A Print is for Life, One Paved Court, Richmond
2020 LOOP: Artists in Print, Espacio Gallery
2020 Annual Exhibition, Royal Scottish Academy
2020 RBA Annual Exhibition, Mall Galleries
2018 LOOP: Artists in Print, Bankside Gallery
2018 Annual Exhibition, Royal Scottish Academy
2017 Lasting Impressions: Selected works from PMC Archive, Scarborough Art Gallery and Museums Trust
2015 PMC: 50 Years of Artist's Prints, Bankside Gallery
2015 PMC: Works on Paper, City of London Barbican Library