She discovered early on that drawing was the most faithful expression of a profound need to observe. Her interest in new aesthetic phenomena and her desire to anticipate her time led her to study Fashion Design at Citex, in Porto, northern Portugal — with a particular fondness for drawing classes, where she was taught by Jaime Azinheira and Mário Bismark, whose influence shaped her personal approach to design, drawing, industrial production and art.

A passion for journalism grew in parallel. She wrote for the newspaper Expresso between 1993 and 2000, pioneering a new approach to journalism focused on emerging consumer phenomena and marketing trends. Invited to write for Elle Portugal, the DNA supplement of Diário de Notícias and other publications, this path earned her the Prize for Best Fashion Journalist, awarded at the RTP Fashion Gala.

She completed a postgraduate degree in Journalism in 1998 at the Universidade Autónoma de Lisboa, writing a thesis on the women's press under the supervision of Henrique Cayatte.

Between 2004 and 2008 she began a creative partnership with psychiatrist Júlio Machado Vaz on the radio programme "O Amor É" (What Love Is), on Antena 1. This collaboration extended to the programme "Serralves Fora de Horas" on SIC Mulher. In 2008 she authored the biography of Rui Veloso, "Os Vês pelo Bês". At the same time she directed the women's magazine LA Mag, a project she created from scratch for Lanidor, which marked the editorial landscape between 2004 and 2010. Between 2004 and 2011 she was also the face of the Fashion TV channel in Portugal.

In 2016, MESQ united digital drawing with music in the project "Casados de Fresco" (Freshly Wed), creating live visual imagery for songs. The symbiosis between music and visual art reached almost a dozen stages across mainland Portugal and Madeira.

In 2017 she opened, on International Women's Day, the exhibition "FRIDA MIRANDA": a tribute to two great artists of the first half of the twentieth century — Frida Kahlo and Carmen Miranda. This project filled the main rooms of the National Museum of Natural History and Science in Lisbon, curated by Sofia Marçal.

Also in 2017, she performed two live drawing performances, "Serralves ao Detalhe" (Serralves in Detail), in the Contemporary Gallery of the Museu de Serralves, as part of Serralves em Festa. She also painted the mural "AMAR" (Love), a four-storey work in the Torre neighbourhood in Cascais. In December she designed the stage set for the show "João Gil e Amigos" at Campo Pequeno, Lisbon.

In 2018 she performed a live paint for the launch of the Rolls-Royce Cullinan in Portugal. She also created the exhibition "TEMPERAMENTO", presented at the Antigo Picadeiro dos Nobres at MUHNAC — a tribute to Amadeo de Souza-Cardoso on the centenary of his death, combining a monumental canvas painted live, a large-scale sculpture and an immersive video art room.

The TEMPERAMENTO exhibition subsequently moved to the Central Hub of Taguspark in Oeiras, where the mural painting Temperamento II (5m × 4.5m), completed in April 2019, remains on permanent display. The work was recognised with the LUX Prize for Female Personality of the Year in Visual Arts in 2019.

Collaboration and collective creation became a defining part of her practice, as demonstrated by the creation of 24 works of art brut, "Casa de Botões" (House of Buttons), in partnership with members of the association Quinta Essência, in 2019.

In 2020, at the invitation of the 42nd Cerveira Biennial, MESQ exhibited "Jardins de Nós" (Gardens of Us) — a collage of classical painting fragments, anthropomorphic figures representing the best of humanity during lockdown. Dimensions: 2.30m × 1.5m, dimmable lightbox with Diasec printing.

In 2021 she designed sets for fifteen performances of "Caixa de Luz" (Box of Light), held at the Capitólio, Casa da Música, Teatro Municipal da Covilhã, Coliseu dos Recreios, Teatro do Parque Mayer and the Caixa Agrícola auditorium in Torres Vedras.

In 2022, the installation "Viagem Pelo Esquecimento" (Journey Through Forgetting), four years in the making, opened at MAAT, combining video art with music composed by João Gil and poetry by Mia Couto. The work was also shown at the Cerveira Biennial until 31 December 2022, and is on permanent display at Casa do Relógio in Cascais.

In 2023 she created ten interstitials for RTP2 as a tribute to poet Vasco Graça Moura, a project recognised with the Meios & Publicidade Prize in the Television and Streaming category. That same year she was responsible for illustration and layout coordination of the children's book "E a Leia Abriu as Torneiras da Ternura" (And Leia Opened the Taps of Tenderness), with text by Afonso Melo.

In November 2022, MESQ began the project "Não Descartáveis — nada nem ninguém se descarta" (Not Disposable — nothing and no one is discarded), an extensive series of collages made from reused paper and cardboard packaging, which opened on 20 February 2025 at Casa do Relógio in Cascais, with the support of Federação Agrimútuo and Sociedade Ponto Verde.

In 2024 she designed the stage set for the theatre production "Que Ventos São Estes?" (What Winds Are These?), directed by Rita Calçada Bastos.

In 2026 she completes the television edition (RTP) of "Viagem Pelo Esquecimento" and finishes the documentary "Não Descartáveis — nada nem ninguém se descarta".

MESQ has never stopped seeking new forms of expression, moving with ease between writing and the visual arts. With an eminently figurative body of work, she naturally creates colour palettes and delicate line, and her works result in apparent patterns laden with mysterious messages, as if they were a kind of visual text. She has permanent public works at Taguspark in Oeiras and in the municipality of Cascais.