Helen Allen

Helen trained originally as a textile designer and teacher. Teaching botanical art here and internationally has been a joyful privilege.

Highlights have been having her own school, paintings in the Hunt Institute, RBG Kew, Chelsea Physic Garden, Hampton Court Palace and Grootbos Foundation Florilegium.

Her work is in the Highgrove Florilegium, and Transylvania Florilegium, which she led on location in Transylvania.

A residency at Oak Spring Garden Foundation, USA in 2024 and teaching a series of Zoom classes from the Royal Academy of Arts, London in 2025 were extraordinary experiences as well as being a Royal Horticultural Society Picture Panel Judge for a number of years.