She started working as window dresser and designer, and developed herself at night as a painter and graphic artist.

In the Netherlands she continued her studies at Ateliers ’63, where she met her partner for live Axel van der Kraan.

Afterwards they continued to work together as the artist duo Axel en Helena van der Kraan.

"[7] The Dutch artist Axel van der Kraan had started as sculptor, and together they continued to make sculptures and installation art.

"[3] Another of her more famous work was the picture called The Art dealers[8] as Toef Jaeger (2020) describes it: In her youth Helena van der Kraan had a special relation her teddy bear, which at young age she had named Bebbeba.