John and Helen are both painters and Riverbank Studios houses their own painting studios as well as gallery/teaching space. John works on large figurative oil paintings with autobiographical and historical subjects often featuring his home city of Edinburgh. Helen is a landscape painter, much of her work is based on the agricultural landscape of South Lincolnsire. She paints in acrylics, watercolours and oil pastels often combining mediums. The Gallery/Teaching space is the venue for art classes for adults and children and also for exhibitions of John and Helen's paintings.