Born and died in Lisbon. She was a Portuguese plastic artist who, during three decades of creative production, dedicated herself exclusively to printmaking. She was married, from 1944 to 1970, to the writer José Saramago.

Her artistic path began at the António Arroio School of Decorative Arts, which she interrupted to focus solely on her professional career as a typist for Caminhos de Ferro until 1965. In that year, at the age of 42, the artist “abandoned secure employment” and returns to the world of the arts and his artistic studies by enrolling in a painting and drawing course at the National Society of Fine Arts. He studied engraving and serigraphy at Gravura – Sociedade Cooperativa de Gravadores Portugueses, a space where Júlio Pomar, Manuela Pinheiro, Alice Jorge and Sérgio Pombo passed and where he guided some courses. She was a member of the direction of «Gravura» in 1971/72 and of the Technical Council in 1972/73, and a grantee from the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation in 1971/72 and 1979/80.
 

He held several individual and group exhibitions and received several awards, among which the following stand out: in 1972, Gold Medal, at the III International Print Biennale, Florence; in 1987, 1st. Prize, at the 1st Art Biennial, Grupo Dramatico Povoense; in 1988, Prize Yugoslavia, Grand Prix Européen des Arts et des Lettres, Nice; in 1990, Honorable Mention, IV Small Format Exhibition, Viragem, Cascais and in 1994, Edition Prize, IV Bienal de Gravura da Amadora.  It is represented at the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, at the State Secretariat for Culture / Casa de Serralves, at the Setúbal Museum, at the Banco de Fomento Nacional, at the City Museum, and also in some foreign museums and collections private. It was published several times by “Gravura” (Lisbon), by Galeria Triângulo (Algés), by Galeria Espiral and by the Centro Português de Serigrafia (Lisbon).