Talented Helen set for tv's Landscape Artist of the Year challenge
Sky Arts' Landscape Artist of the Year returns with a new series featuring Saddleworth artist Helen Campbell as a contestant. The show, hosted by Stephen Mangan, challenges artists to paint UK landscapes within four hours, with locations including Llanberis Lake and Clifton Suspension Bridge.
Sky Arts launches its hunt for Britain and Ireland’s next great landscape painter when Landscape Artist of the Year returns to screens on January 22, available on Sky Arts, Freeview and NOW.
Among the contestants vying for the title is Saddleworth artist Helen Campbell, who balances her painting career with volunteer work for the National Trust in her local area.
Stephen Mangan hosts the competition series, with award-winning portrait artist Tai Shan Schierenberg, curator Kathleen Soriano and art historian Kate Bryan returning to the judging panel.
The show transports artists to some of the UK’s most breathtaking vistas, from the dramatic Llanberis Lake at the foot of Yr Wyddfa (Mount Snowdon) to Bristol’s iconic Clifton Suspension Bridge, the historic grounds of Hampton Court Palace, and the newly redeveloped St Pancras Basin.
Each heat pits eight artists against the clock, giving them just four hours to capture their chosen view while 50 wildcard entrants paint alongside them. The judges select one heat winner and one standout wildcard to advance to the semi-finals at Portsmouth Historic Dockyard, where they join seven other heat victors in the next stage of the competition.
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