She also attended courses at Ar.Co - Centro de Arte & Comunicação Visual [pt] in Lisbon from 2002.
[1][2] After her studies Botelho was able to continue her career with grants from several institutions, including the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, the National Cultural Centre in Portugal, the Luso-American Foundation, and the Directorate-General for the Arts of Portugal.
She held artistic residencies at the Centro de Arte Moderna Gulbenkian (CAM) and the Galeria Zé dos Bois (2007)[3]; and at the Espaço do Desenho (2010).
[4][5] It has been observed that she is "inspired by nature's cycles: solar trajectories, water tides, and laws of attraction" and that in her work "she applies geometry to sculpt and draw shifting paradigms".
[6] It has been said that the concept of gravity is central to her work[7] and that she is fascinated by themes linked to science, physics and the mathematical precision of certain movements.