In 1962, she graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb in the class of professor Frano Baća.
[2] She was a professional artist until 1983, when she became a professor at the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb.
In 1997, she became a regular member of the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts.
[1] Her works are often surrealistic and phantasmagoric with restless handwriting and refined coloring.
She is the daughter of architect Zvonimir Kavurić, while her husband was law professor Šefko Kurtović.