Forthcoming show

Helen Baker's latest works continue to be part of a series investigating colour.
She is presently on sabbatical and creating a series based on mapping .

Her architectural block paintings are reminiscent of both Guston and Klee. Some appear to teeter on the edge of perspective, as if they are about to fall at any minute. Some offer the possibility of patched works, in both instances they are part of an ongoing interest in our relationship to the handmade and the industrial.

Helen Baker (also known as Helen Baker-Alder) was awarded the Rootstein Hopkins Sabbatical Award for Painting in 2006.

In 2007 she was awarded a British Academy Abbey Fellowship with a three month Painting Residency at the British School at Rome. Helen works as Principal Lecturer in Fine Art with special responsibility for painting at the University of Northumbria, and leads the part-time MA Fine Art & Education programme in collaboration with the Baltic Education Team.
Helen is presently on sabbatical leave from teaching.

Helen became the first Director of Gallery North at the School of Arts and Social Sciences at Northumbria University, which opened 2008.

A recent limited publication of recent works and writing by Helen Baker has been published by the Corn Exchange Gallery, Edinburgh and is available from Corn Exchange Gallery