She was known for her poetic paintings of flowers and depictions of the sea and skerries, usually those seen from Holmesund, northeast of Arendal, where she had her summer home.
[2] Her paintings have been described as having lyrical colors, with a bright saturated palette of red-yellow, blue, and green that contain a lot of white.
Øvrelid is represented in the National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design with the paintings Sommernatt (Summer Night, 1969) and Hav og rød himmel (Sea and Red Sky, 1978).
Jerven was part of an artists' colony that developed in Flosta Municipality after the Second World War.
Together with artists such as Ellen Iden, Ivar Jerven, Knut Monrad, Finn Strømsted, Bodil Cappelen, Finn Henrik Bodvin, and Liv Nergaard, an artistic environment was created that drew inspiration from nature and the skerries.