Influenced by the art she has experienced in Poland and France and increasingly experimenting with form and colour, she uses a variety of materials for her woven works, everything from long-haired wool to plastic and newspaper.
As her mother died when she was born, she was adopted by her uncle, the travel agent Arnfinn Fuglevaag (1902–63), and his wife, Sofie née Moslet (1907–62), a nurse.
[1][5] The year Fuglevaag spent in Poland was particularly significant for her career, not only because she saw how country treated textile art on a level with painting and sculpture but because it gave her ideas about the scope of textile expression.From 1964, she created works in her weaving workshop in Oslo, allowing her to exhibit at the Autumn Exhibition in 1965 with her non-figurative naturally coloured Komposisjon consisting of unevenly presented dark and light fields.
[5] She has travelled widely, spending extensive periods in the Italian countryside and working in her Paris studio while visiting most other European countries.
[3] After retiring from teaching at the Norwegian National Academy of Craft and Art Industry in 1996, she moved to Paris but has now returned to Norway.