[2] Her earliest formative influence, starting at age nine, was her aunt Blanche Ellul Sullivan (1907–2002), who studied under Edward Caruana Dingli.
She was granted a scholarship by the Italian Cultural Institute at the Accademia di Belle Arti in Perugia, Italy in 1982.
[8] Grima's work was exhibited at the Mdina Biennale in 2015 along with artists like Dario Fo, Francesco Infante, and Richard England.
These include Maltese Landscape and Still Life - Museum of Fine Arts, Valletta, Malta in 1992, Earth & Sky - International Woman's Day, United Nations, Geneva, Switzerland in 1995, Marine Life - Watercolour Esplenade Plaza Hotel, Fremantle, W Australia in 1986, Sacred Footprints - Neolithia Foundation and Peninsula Arts, Plymouth University, UK in 2005., 70/2000, The Road to Meikel Seiggie - DEA Foundation - Gallery Vilnius, Lithuania in 2001, Temples Malta - N. Foundation - Californian Institute of Integral Studies, San Francisco, USA in 2000, The Scottish Rites Temple, Oakland, and the Bade Gallery University of California, Berkeley, USA in 2000.
Sacred Journeys - DEA Foundation - Matthew Gallery, Edinburgh Arts Festival, Scotland in 1999 among many others.