Helen Piddington was born in Esquimalt, BC. She studied at UBC and in France at L'Ecole Supérieure de Beaux Arts, L'Ecole Métiers d'Arts and Atelier 17. In 1966, in West Vancouver, she established The Printmaking Workshop which she directed until 1975. She and her family moved in that year to Loughborough Inlet. Piddington has specialized in life-drawing and is an accomplished landscape artist. Collections in which she is represented include Le Bibliothèque Nationale de France, the Victoria and Albert Museum and the New York Public Library. Helen Piddington is also the author of The Inlet (Harbour Publishing, 2001) and Rumble Seat (Ibid., 2010).