Helen Steinthal was a painter born in Manchester, daughter of a German-born corn merchant and a French-born artist Bertha Noel Steinthal (1880-1970). Helen studied at Salford Polytechnic from 1928 to 1929, Grosvenor School of Art, 1930 to 1932 under Ian McNab and at the Slade School of Fine Art, where she studied stage design and decorative painting under Vladimir Polunin, 1933-38.
She worked as a scene painter at the Old Vic and Sadlers Wells, before returning to Manchester at the outbreak of World War II. She exhibited at Manchester Academy of Fine Arts, Leeds City Art Gallery, Manchester Society of Modern Painters and relocated to Wales c. 1945. In the Principality, she exhibited National Eisteddfod and was included in Welsh Arts Council exhibitions of Contemporary Welsh painting at the Royal Academy, Royal Cambrian Academy, Howard Roberts Gallery, Cardiff, Roland, Browse & Delbanco, Ceri Richards Gallery at Swansea University and at the Business Design Centre, London. Bangor University holds examples of her work and her death was recorded in Tremadog, Gwynedd.
