Helen is a certified instructor with Koh-I-Noor/Grumbacher/Col Art Americas, Alexander Art and Winsor Newton.

Helen has more than 30 years of teaching experience in Europe, New York State, Hawaii, and Florida. She studied in oils with Herr Schwarz, Meisenbach, Germany, James Chichester of Panama City, Florida and Bennett Bradbury, California; Plein-Air with Este Rayle of North Carolina; Portraiture with Valerie Stewart, California and Fuller Brown, Pensacola, Florida; wildlife art with National Wildlife Artist, Fred W. Wetzel, Pennsylvania; acrylics with Brenda Harris and Milton Lenoir; also, Joseph Dowson while living in Hawaii; drawing with Greg Albert, Author/Artist.

Helen is an award winning artist and continues to participate in art and gallery shows. She has done commission work for friends and clients throughout the Continental US, Hawaii, and Europe, including a pen and ink drawing on the bulletin for the dedication ceremony of the new Hickam Air Force Base Chapel, Hawaii, pen and ink renderings of the Old Base Chapel, Plattsburgh Air Force Base, New York for the Officers’ Wives’ Club Board Members, as well as stationary for their College Scholarship program. Helen has promoted Grumbacher products in Oils, Acrylics, Pen and Ink, Watercolor, and Pastels at the Military Base Exchange at Eglin Air Force Base and Tyndall Air Force Base, Florida. While accompanying her husband as a military wife, Helen has gained a wealth of knowledge on many painting subjects to share with everyone, students and clients.

I teach elementary school students about the Old Masters. They do pastels, watercolor and drawing in the class after discussion on the artist. During the summer I teach the Kids Art Camp week for our local art group and do a class with the “Gotta’ have Art” program for adults put on by the same group.

Helen continues to do portrait commissions in oils – landscapes in oils and acrylics. Her art is on display at Gallery 331, DeFuniak Springs, Florida in addition to other local areas. She teaches art at the Center for Lifelong Learning, University of West Florida, Fort Walton Beach, Florida.