Helen Thomas is a contemporary British painter based in Wakefield, England. She graduated from Falmouth School of Art (BA Fine Art) and completed a year of postgraduate study with Turps Art School.

Helen works with drawing and painting to consider humanity’s relationships with plants.

Solo exhibitions: No patch of green too small, presented by Huddersfield Art Gallery and University of Huddersfield, 2025; ’Habitat’, Mura Ma, Manchester, 2024; ‘Dandelions and Double Yellows’, Wakefield Cathedral, 2021.
 
Group exhibitions include: Planted, The FG Gallery, Cheshire, 2025; Planting Ideas, St Barbe Museum and Art Gallery, Hampshire, 2024; Babble, Ilkeston Contemporary, Derbyshire, 2023; Entwined: Plants in Contemporary Painting, Huddersfield Art Gallery, 2022 and 20-21 Visual Arts, Scunthorpe, 2023; Conversations with Nature, The Art House, Wakefield, 2022; Jerwood Drawing Prize 2016.