Coming from a distinguished artistic family she has exhibited extensively in Portugal, Spain and in New York.
She received a work grant in 1986 from the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation and the State Secretariat for Culture (SEC).
On the one hand have been those based on doodles and scribbles, i.e. work done at random when the artist was distracted by other matters.
Her more recent paintings, dating from around 2012, have, on the other hand, vivid colours with images that are often considered to be "childish".
In 2022 both she and her mother were part of an exhibition at the Calouste Gulbenkian Museum devoted solely to Portuguese women artists, entitled Tudo O Que Eu Quero (All I Want).