Helen Thomas is a Yorkshire based visual artist working predominantly with painting and drawing. Helen’s work explores responses to plants in the environment; her current line of enquiry continues to consider often overlooked, and sometimes contentious, self seeded plants in our everyday surroundings. Helen’s practice includes field and studio work, alongside educational and collaborative projects.

Solo exhibitions include No patch of green too small, presented by Huddersfield Art Gallery Curates and Cultures of Climate, at University of Huddersfield, 2025 and Habitat at Mura Ma, Manchester in 2024.

Helen’s 2021 project ‘Dandelions and Double Yellows’ was supported by Arts Council England and Wakefield Council. The project culminated in a solo exhibition at Wakefield Cathedral. Group exhibitions include: Planting Ideas, St Barbe Art Gallery and Museum, Hampshire, 2024; Entwined: Plants in Contemporary Painting, Huddersfield Art Gallery, 2022 with tour to 20-21 Visual Arts, Scunthorpe, 2023; Rogue Women 2, Manchester, 2023; and Jerwood Drawing Prize, 2016.

Helen completed a B.A in Fine Art at Falmouth School of Art and a year of postgraduate study with Turps Art School. Helen is a studio holder at The Art House in Wakefield.