She studied drawing under Juozas Zikaras at the Panevėžys gymnasium.
After the graduation from Vitebsk Arts Tekhnikum in 1932 she earned her living by drawing caricatures for Belarusian magazines and newspapers.
[12][13]) With the advance of Red Army, the family tried to flee to Switzerland, but they were placed into the displaced persons camp in the American Zone of Germany in 1944.
After living in New York, in 1982 the family moved to Santa Monica.
[3] Danas Lapkus, and art editor of the Lituanus magazine, describes her artistic style as based on both realism and romanticism, "a supple new growth upon the trunk of Socialist Realism".