Helen studied at Belfast Art College and subsequently worked for three years as a textile designer. She normally uses the medium of watercolour and specialises in natural subjects with the emphasis on detail. She has taught art classes for adults in Castlereagh College, Ballyearl Arts Centre and Queens University Belfast. She has organised weekend workshops in landscape paintings based in the Mournes and in Kesh, Co Fermanagh. Helen is a Past President of the Ulster Society of Women Artists, Arts Society of Ulster and a member of the Ulster Watercolour Society. She has exhibited widely in Northern Ireland as well as Dublin, London and the United States. She is married with three children and five grandchildren. Her hobbies include weekly games of tennis and badminton.