Helen Booth studied Fine Art Painting at Wimbledon School of Art. Her recent work responds directly to her time spent creating work in sub-zero temperatures in Iceland, as part of a residency supported by Wales Arts International at the Hafnarborg Arts and Culture Centre. She is the recipient of awards from the Adolph and Esther Gottlieb Foundation, and in 2019 she won the Pollock Krasner Foundation Award for Painting. She has also received prizes including the Welsh Based Artist Prize, the Friends of the Glynn Vivian Gallery Prize and the BEEP International Painting Prize Biennial, Swansea. Her work is in private collections worldwide.
Helen Booth uses a simple language of dots and muted colour to explore the molecular wonder of the atmospheric world that surrounds us. The silence of snowfall, the atomic structure of frozen water and the subtleties of winter light are all expressed on canvas in a limited palette of whites and repeated, dotted marks which merge space and sensory experience, reminding us of the interconnectedness of ourselves and spatial reality.