Helen Kassila
Artist & surface pattern designer
As a dual citizen born in Australia of Finnish parents, Helen’s creativity was first nurtured at home where the textile handcrafts of knitting, crochet, hand sewing and weaving travelled through the family line.
Her simple and stylised designs are inspired by nature’s patterns, shapes, lines and forms found abundant in land and sea.
Helen studied visual arts at TAFE and later graduated with a Bachelor of Communication from Griffith University in Brisbane, Queensland.
She is a current member of the Queensland Spinners, Weavers and Fibre Artists (QSWFA) group.
After enjoying an idyllic childhood on the Gold Coast, Helen lives with her family in the city of Brisbane and calls sub-tropical south-east Queensland home in Australia.
Heliotropic Design would like to acknowledge Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples as the traditional custodians of the lands and waters where we live and create.
We pay respect to Ancestors and Elders of First Nations Peoples as the first makers, creators and storytellers and honour their ongoing cultural and spiritual relationship to land, sea and sky.