A combination of a love of gardening and pattern in nature led her to the English Gardening School in the Chelsea Physic Garden where she gained the prestigious Diploma in Botanical Illustration.

Helen is Course Director of the one-year diploma course in Botanical Illustration at the English Gardening School. She also available for tuition at home.

Helen has exhibited at galleries in London, the Shires and overseas including Ebury Galleries, London, Ursus Gallery, New York and the Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation, Pittsburg, USA. Most recently her work has been shown at the Mall Galleries, and her original watercolours are in many private collections.

Helen’s work has been selected for inclusion in the Highgrove Florilegium. This is presently being created under the umbrella of the Prince of Wales’s Charitable Foundation and will celebrate and record in a permanent way the flora in the garden at Highgrove. Helen has four paintings in the archives of the Chelsea Physic Garden. She is a painting member of the Chelsea Physic Garden Florilegium Society and the Hampton Court Palace Florilegium Society. Two of Helen’s paintings are in the permanent collection of the Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation.