Born in Liverpool, England, Helen came to Australia as a child and now lives in Thirlmere, near the southern highlands of NSW.
With a lifelong interest in art, Helen found the opportunity to further her artistic studies in Florence at the Charles H. Cecil Studios, one of Italy’s leading studios still teaching drawing and oil portraiture in the demanding, traditional style.
At the Cecil Studio, Helen was taken through the discipline of cast drawing, ‘sight size’ life drawing and portraiture in oils. This enabled Helen to gain the training unavailable to her a decade or more earlier.