• Helen Booth (b. 1967, Burton upon Trent) is a painter based in West Wales. She graduated in Fine Art Painting...

    Helen Booth (b. 1967, Burton upon Trent) is a painter based in West Wales. She graduated in Fine Art Painting from Wimbledon School of Art in 1989.

     

    Her practice has received repeated recognition from the Pollock-Krasner Foundation (2015 and 2019) and the Adolph and Esther Gottlieb Foundation (2019 and 2026).

     

    Solo exhibitions include The Same Sky at Oriel Davies (2023), This Divine Quiet at &Gallery, Edinburgh (2021), Breathe at Oriel Myrddin Gallery (2020), and Matter at Elysium Gallery (2019).

     

    In 2019–2020, Booth undertook an artist residency at Hafnarborg Arts and Culture Centre, Iceland, supported by Wales Arts International. During this period, she spent time at Skaftafell Glacier.

     

    She has exhibited with Richeldis Fine Art, Loughran Gallery and Circle Contemporary, and her work is available through Holly Hunt in the United States.

     

    Booth’s commissioned projects include bespoke, large-scale wallcoverings for the Radiology Department at Nevill Hall Hospital, Aneurin Bevan University Health Board (2025), and eight artworks for the Radiology Department at the new Velindre Cancer Centre, Cardiff (2026).

     

    Her paintings are held in private collections internationally.

  • AWARDS & GRANTS

    2026 — Adolph and Esther Gottlieb Foundation
    2020 — Wales Arts International
    2019 — Adolph and Esther Gottlieb Foundation
    2019 — Pollock-Krasner Foundation
    2019 — Beep Painting Prize, Welsh Based Artist Prize, Glynn Vivian Art Gallery, Swansea
    2015 — Pollock-Krasner Foundation

     

    RESIDENCIES & BURSARIES

    2023 — Arts Council of Wales, Solo Exhibition Bursary, We All Share the Same Sky, Oriel Davies Gallery
    2019–2020 — Hafnarborg Arts and Culture Centre, Artist Residency, Iceland
    2009 — Oppenheim-John Downes, Painting Bursary
    2007 — Oppenheim-John Downes, Painting Bursary