HELEN HALLIDAY
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Helen Halliday is a painter, printmaker and ceramicist influenced by her love of colour and the natural world - she has  exhibited widely and has work in public and private collections in the UK and overseas.
Her varied career began with a music degree and work as a studio manager and composer at the BBC and sound engineer for Swiss Radio. After a few years living in America, bringing up her family, painting and studying Suzuki piano teaching she returned to the UK and decided to focus on art - many years of study and practice culminated in a degree in Fine Art at Hertfordshire University.

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​How I work
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I enjoy working with different media and techniques; my love of colour, light, texture and form is apparent in all my work. I use sketchbooks out in the landscape to research ideas and capture fleeting impressions which are later distilled into paintings, prints or ceramic pieces. 
The work gains a life of its own in the studio as the materials and techniques influence the final outcome; the exploration, the 'happy accident' and the mistakes all contribute to the creative experience.

Some highlights

My career as an artist has included many interesting and exciting experiences. After graduating in Fine Art in 2000 I gained post-graduate qualifications in printmaking, ceramics and teaching. I have won several awards including World Wildlife Fund, Artist Magazine, Artist and Illustrator's Magazine and Daily Telegraph. I worked with Andy Goldsworthy for the Time exhibition at the Barbican in 2000 and have appeared on TV's Watercolour Challenge. Undertaking an artist residency in the Azores, running painting holidays in India and Greece and taking part in a painting competition in Germany have all given me new insights and experiences.
Closer to home, I helped with a community mural project in South Oxhey, created a ceramic mural for my local hospital and taught local education classes and weekends at Missenden Abbey. 
As well as creating and exhibiting my work I now focus on leading painting holidays and teaching on cruise ships which enables me to explore new horizons and revisit some of my favourites, with the added bonus of being able to share my enthusiasm for making art which is vibrant, colourful and exciting. 

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