Born in Porto in 1944. She had a degree in Architecture from the Escola Superior de Belas Artes de Lisboa, and in Painting from the Escola Superior de Belas Artes do Porto. Having spent her childhood in Moç ;ambique until At the age of 10 and then through the bush of Angola, Helena Justino captured a style of composition from those parts and above all the bright and strong colors that make the peculiarity of her work.

He held his first solo exhibition at the Luanda Museum in 1963 and has exhibited regularly since 1985 in Portugal and Germany. country, those that are the result of its good relations with Angola stand out, but it has also been part of numerous collectives, including in the municipality of Cascais, where it exhibited at the Casino Estoril and at the Hotel Albatroz, arriving to internationalization with exhibitions in Santiago Compostela and other locations in Galicia, New York and Madrid.

His graphic work includes several screen prints, devoted to various themes and illustrations of book covers and interiors. You are Mentioned in dictionaries of Portuguese painters and sculptors and their works were widely publicized, commented in the press by names such as Cruzeiro Seixas, Francisco Relógio, Rocha de Sousa and several poets and writers. 

In 2008 he saw his work and life represented in a film made by Álvaro Queiroz at the studio. of Telheiras which is in the Cinemateca Portuguesa archive. He passed away in 2019.