[3] Jessen has received a number of prizes, including the Norske Kunsthåndverkere's Honorary Award in 2003.
[2] In 1964, she gained practical experience working with the Danish textile artist Ruth Christensen [da].
[2] Jessen first worked from 1964 as a craftswoman and designer with the crafts organization PLUS in Fredrikstad but left after about a year.
Together with Turid Holter (1936–1911), she opened her own workshop in the Oslo Bazaars, producing fabrics for clothing, tablecloths and curtains.
[5] By the 1980s, she moved on to increasingly decorative works as she experimented with new techniques, striving to optimize the properties of different fabrics.