After a traditional education, she enrolled in the Brussels Académie Royale des Beaux-Arts in 1921, where she was taught by Jean Delville and Constant Montald.
Between 1960 and 1970, when the popularity of surrealism decreased, she mainly painted compositions focusing on subjects like war and violence.
Her encounters after the war with René Magritte, Louis Scutenaire, Paul Nougé, and then Marcel Mariën, with whom she collaborated on the periodical Les Lèvres nues [fr][1], merely reconfirmed her in her beliefs.
Her painting La Goutte d'eau is a collective portrait of the Belgian surrealists.
[4] She offered an original, dreamy version of feminine sensibility in painting, served by a figurative technique that was both precise and cold.