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Biography

BA (Psychology, University of Sheffield)
Diploma in Education (Institute of Education, University of Sheffield)
MA in Education (Open University)
BA, MA and PhD (History of Art, University of York)

Helen’s PhD, supervised by Dr. Jeanne Nuechterlein, was completed in 2010 and it explored the use and development of landscape settings in the religious works and portraits of the early Netherlandish painter Hans Memling. The study addressed how Memling’s illusions blended the experimental with the traditional and considered how elements in their appearance could be said to resonate with spiritual and socio-economic features of context.