For most of her adult life, Helen lived in remote communities and rural towns throughout Western Australia - in Laverton, Derby, Kununurra, Narrogin, Tom Price, and aboriginal communities Blackstone, Mulan Wakuthuni. She died in Kelmscott in 2021, at the age of 75 years. Helen's artistic work ranged across many art and craft forms. These included painting, photography, calligraphy, graphic design and collage, and crafts such as silk screening, clay, dressmaking, knitting, pyrography, and papier-mache. Community projects included murals, cards, posters, bowls, baskets, jigsaws, and earrings.