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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;
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?
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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 Society2015 Perthshire Open Studios
2008 - 2013 Cambridge Open Studios
Gloucester Gallery South Kensington 3 man show
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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.
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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
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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
Imogenart on iPad - LiveSketch
INTRODUCING Imogen Art
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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
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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.
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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