A colorful oil landscape painting depicting a rural scene across Edinburgh City with Edinburgh Castle, Arthurs Seat. Deer and foxes appear with pheasant, Fife appears across a body of water, and a vibrant sky with clouds, floating faces, and birds.

Upcoming events . Save the date .

Upcoming events . Save the date .

February 3 - March 3 2026

Scottish Arts Club
24 Rutland Place, Edinburgh EH1 2BW

A retrospective of Scottish paintings, iPad drawings and sketchbook items. A full Exhibition with approximately 36 paintings and ceramics. Works in Scottish clay draw on the buildings of Marchmont, well-known stories and musings on landscape, life and animals. Unusually, Helen Imogen carves pictures into her thrown pots and decorates them with bright colours. As Eeyore said - useful pots to put things in. A variety of shapes as clay dictates the throw. No two alike.

July 1 - August 5 2025

Scottish Arts Club
24 Rutland Place, Edinburgh EH1 2BW

The Life drawing portraits from the class run by Teresa Primrose. Helen Imogen submitted a large pastel picture called “Dancer” and has several in this series of A1 ‘headshots’. Her ‘Imogenised’ life drawings in bright soft colours graced the browser.

May 6 - June 3 2025

Scottish Arts Club
24 Rutland Place, Edinburgh EH1 2BW

The “Spirit of Edinburgh” large oil painting was inspired by the title of a previous members exhibition at the club. Thus Scottish animals, deer, doves and pheasants join the Covanenters who contributed much to the history of Scotland. They are laid into a view across Edinburgh from the Pentland hills near Oxgangs, into the Kingdom of Fife;

Colorful abstract pastel portrait of a woman with long hair, smiling, with expressive and vibrant strokes in multiple colors including yellow, green, pink, blue, orange, and purple, on tracing paper and displayed recently at Scottish Arts Club

Helen Imogen is a painter and artist, among other things, based in Cambridge and Edinburgh. Using a wide range of materials and styles to transmit colour, fun and stories above all, she is interested in your loved one’s history.

Following a lifetime of art, Helen Imogen is embarking on life as an artist who exhibits. There is a drive towards words with pictures, promoting people’s real-life, good stories. We can draw on the resilience and experience of our elderly, connecting us with our own history.

Clients commissions and services

Oil paintings - portraits, cats, flowers

Lessons on iPad for artists to get going - from tools to saving and printing your images

Your illustrated story?

  • 2025 Scottish Arts Club - life drawing

    2025 Scottish Arts Club - members show

    2024 Boomer Gallery London

    2024 Leith School of Art end of year show for Contemporary Art Practice

    2024 Edinburgh 900 at St Cuthberts church (900 artworks in support of Ukraine)

    2024 Leith School of Art end of year show Figures
    2015 Dundee Art Society

    2015 Perthshire Open Studios

    2008 - 2013 Cambridge Open Studios

    Gloucester Gallery South Kensington 3 man show

  • Art O-level 1977

    Art students league of New York 1991-2

    Leith School of Art 2023-4 one year courses: Contemporary Art Practice with Rachel McBrinn; Figures with Sarah Gittins.

    Royal School of Drawing Online Drawing Development Year ODDY 2025; tutors include Jake Garfield (printing), Clare Newbold, Sophie Hexheimer, Sara Lee Roberts (abstract landscape), Emily Hayworth Booth (words with pictures) and more.

  • Biochemistry Honours Oxford 1980-4

    DPhil = PhD Molecular Biology Oxford 1984-8 on antibody binding

    Laboratory scientific research on African trypanosomes (sleeping sickness) telomeres (aging) and more to 1999

    MSc in Information Technology (IT) at UCL 1999-2000

    Computer software design and programming for biologists to 2016

    Social services - childcare HNC 2018-19

    Christian Leadership Glasgow 2019-21

    Counselling HNC 2021-23

  • 1997 SAA Society of Amateur Artist Best portrait

    1998 SAA front page

    2021 Long listed for National Portrait Gallery Prize

    2015 Celia McCartney Salver Dundee Art Society

    Plenty of Poster prizes aged 6 - 16

iPad liveSketch drawing of a large yellow historic building on a grassy green hill with trees and a cloudy sky in the background. Dundee's Baxter Park with an Oor Wullie statue erected as I drew this on my tablet

Imogenart on iPad - LiveSketch

INTRODUCING Imogen Art

Statues seen from the Central Library, drawn on iPad during a seminar. Sculpture of a group of people, adult and two children viewing the street, with relief pieces on warm walls.

  • A degree and DPhil (PhD) in biochemistry and molecular biology respectively. Then computing so that the biology workload could be streamlined, designing software for biologists. Finally a social scientist studying Social Services and child psychology - with Counselling too - see LinkedIn

  • Laboratory research scientist in biological cellular molecular biology studying the intricacies of the cell, and unicellular parasites. Moved onto wider studies looking at cancer genetics, creating software for discovery and easing of workload.

  • Art has been an at home studio, or simply drawing, since age 4. First a pencil on scraps of paper, then posters and crafts at school (all afternoon - stops all the boredom and exercises the other side of the brain). Photography led to portraiture, portraits to everything. Retirement project was always to become an artist professional so back to school for some amazing art tuition, so feeling at home as a contemporary artist with a classical armoury. Drawing, on ceramics, is a destination.

Art education

1991-2 Art students league of New York

2023-4 Leith School of Art

2025 Royal School of Drawing Online Drawing Development Year ODDY