Helen AliceJohnson is a contemporary landscape painter with a BA Combined Hons in Visual Art and Art History as well as an MA in Contemporary Art Practice. Helen lives and works between Alston in the North Pennines and Les Chapelles in the Pays de la Loire, Northern France. She has an optimistic approach to life and this is evident in her celebratory landscapes.

What does it mean to be an artist? When I was young I thought it meant being able to draw accurate and realistic pictures of what I saw around me.

Over the years I’ve come to understand that it’s all about expression. I’m a firm believer in the old adage that there’s no such thing as bad art. Simply what you like and what you don’t like.