Helena Skirmuntt's creative path perfectly reflects an attempt of a noble woman to break free from the conservative cultural environment conditioned by the class system and political situation in Lithuania at the time. She attempted to fully realize herself as an independent creator and artist to approach the comfort of the universal Western culture. Skirmuntt was a very talented and prolific artist who created tens of busts and portrait medals (mainly of family members and acquaintances) as well as reliefs of historic personalities. The highlights of her creation of her were four crucifixes and a series of historic chess created in the Crimea period to commemorate the victory of the army of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth over the Turkish army near Vienna in 1683.
While Helena Skirmuntt was a trailblazer for Lithuanian female sculptors in her era, the field of female sculptors in Europe and North America at that time was already a prolific one. Contemporaries of Skirmont include Susan Durant (1827-1873), a British artist and sculptor, one of the first female sculptors to achieve critical and financial success in Victorian Britain; Mary Grant (1831-1908), one of the most eminent female sculptors of the 19th century Britain; Carolina Maria Benedicks-Bruce (1856–1935), a Swedish sculptor; Gisèle d'Estoc, pseudonym Marie-Paule Alice Courbe (1845-1894), a French writer, sculptor, and feminist; Amelia Robertson Hill (birth record Emmilia McDermaid Paton) (1821-1904), a prominent Scottish artist and sculptor throughout the 19th century; Anne Whitney (1821-1915), an American sculptor and poet; margaret e. Foley (1827-1877), an American sculptor; Emma Stebbins (1815-1882), an American sculptor, etc.