Lyttelton-based, Helen Taylor is an artist, writer and award-winning children’s book illustrator with works in private collections around New Zealand and overseas. Her work is inspired by poetry, song and the ‘collector’ of the exotic and beautiful. 

“The Ornithologist and the Lepidopterist hunger for that which is unique. They strive to capture Beauty and preserve it in museum drawers and Bell Jars. Life and Death is on display for all eternity.”