Burge developed an interest in art during her early teenage years, and was inspired by a book her mother had given her called You Are An Artist by Fred Gettings (1965).

In 1972 she attended various schools before she obtained a music and art teaching certificate from Gipsy Hill College, Kingston.

In 2006, Pery Burge developed a new brushless art technique, which lead to experimenting with moving substrate.

Burge found that ink in water, when using different surface tension, gave a colourful flow and movement, which she calls "Inkplosions".

[5][6] Burge has worked on new ways of bringing art and science together for students, when she started her Artist-in Residence at Exeter University Thermofluids Lab, funded by the Leverhume Trust.