She then attended Harriet Backer's art school where she studied under Eilif Peterssen, Christian Skredsvig and Hans Heyerdahl.

One of her works depicts a dark brown forest flanking water in the foreground with the bluish hills under a brighter sky in the distance.

Her Fra en Bondegaard received acclaim from the art expert Jens Thiis and the painter Gerhard Munthe.

She spent the winter of 1899 to 1900 in Copenhagen where she shared a large apartment with Kris and Oluf Wold-Torne and Lalla Hvalstad.

Thanks to a travel grant, in the autumn of 1902, together with Hvalstad she went to Paris where she again received critical assistance from Willumsen who was also there at the time.

[4] While Bugge Berge continued to paint portraits in the 1920s, in 1925 she decorated the ceiling, walls and gallery of the County Hall (Fylkehuset) in Skien.