Helen is a textile artist based in the UK, exhibiting in the UK and Sydney, Australia.
 
​She explores personal connections to the landscape and the scientific world, focusing upon the detail and colour found in nature and medicine. Her designs are generally abstract using mark making techniques and allowing motif creation to develop from drawing and printing research. 
Wet felted wool is commonly her base, with other fabrics and hand or free machine embroidery added to create layered textural surfaces or sculptural forms as the design dictates. She often naturally dye her wool using leaves and bark found locally to give her work a sense of place and grounding within her environment. 
Hand felting and the organic transformation of wool fibre into felt connects her emotionally to the completed work.  This remains an important process of her art practice. 


Originally from Scotland and training as a pharmacist there, Helen completed a PhD in pharmaceutics in London with the intention of following a career in research.  However, a family move abroad in 2000 to Basel, Switzerland for 4 years gave her the opportunity to return to her love of textiles and begin a City & Guilds course in Design and Embroidery by correspondence. She continued this study when she subsequently moved to Australia, completing her Diploma in 2016. 
 After 13 years in Australia, Helen moved back to the UK in 2017, specifically to the Oxfordshire countryside, where she now works from her studio.  In addition to her activities in the UK as a member of the Oxfordshire Craft Guild, Prism Textiles and seam collective she is fortunate to continue to teach and exhibit in Australia with Untethered Fibre Artists.