A Lochgilphead-based artist who took up painting to recover from brain surgery is to feature her work in an exhibition at the Scottish Fisheries Museum in Fife - and Oban Lifeboat gets a starring role in it.
Helen Butler’s paintings will be part of the Eclectic Collection going on show during this month.
“Much of my work features the sea and canals, indeed I have called my studio H2O designs,” said Helen.
“For the exhibition in Anstruther, I was keen to include images of a lifeboat. The Oban-based vessel is one that I see in my travels to paint and exhibit, and the team there kindly shared a series of photographs of the Mora Edith MacDonald and her crew for me to work from.”
To mark the upcoming exhibition, Helen met up with Oban lifeboat coxswain Ally Cerexhe to donate prints of her lifeboat pictures to members of the crew.
Helen said: “I started painting to help me get through the recovery process after brain surgery, which I underwent to help control my epileptic seizures.
“I have been helped by so many people over the six years since. Raising awareness of organisations like the RNLI, and helping to raise money for these good causes, is part of my way of giving something back.”
Helen will be making a donation to the RNLI for every wave and lifeboat painting that she sells.
To see more of Helen’s pictures, visit h2odesigns.co.uk
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