One of the most important personalities in the Portuguese engraving renewal movement of the 1950s, she was banned from teaching art for 19 years because of her support for the families of political prisoners.

She was also a book illustrator, collaborating on works by authors such as Aquilino Ribeiro, David Mourão-Ferreira and Matilde Rosa Lopes de Araújo.

She illustrated Portuguese editions of The Decameron, the Divine Comedy, Miguel de Cervantes' Exemplary Novels, and One Thousand and One Nights.

She received a scholarship from the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation for a visit to Paris from 1968 to 1970, and another from 1976 to 1978 in Portugal, to create an album on engraving techniques.

Alongside her artistic activity, she ran engraving courses and, in the 1980s, published, with Maria Gabriel, the book Técnicas da Gravura Artística.

[3] In June 1993, Jorge was awarded the rank of Officer of the Order of St. James of the Sword for artistic merit.