Early on, she realized that drawing was the most faithful manifestation of a deep need to observe. Her interest in new aesthetic phenomena and her desire to anticipate the times led her to study Fashion Design at Citex, in the city of Porto, northern Portugal.

She had the honor of learning from masters such as Jaime Azinheira and Mário Bismark, whose influence shaped her personal approach to design, drawing, industrial production, and art.

Her passion for journalism grew in parallel. She wrote for the newspaper Expresso between 1993 and 2000. She brought innovation to journalism by turning her attention to new consumption phenomena and marketing trends. Invited to write for Elle Portugal, the DNA supplement of Diário de Notícias, and several other publications, this journey earned her a journalism award granted by RTP.

She completed a postgraduate degree in Journalism in 1998 at Universidade Autónoma de Lisboa, where she wrote 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 Antena 1 radio program O Amor É, where they explored the nuances of love and life together. This collaboration extended to the television program Serralves Fora de Horas, on SIC Mulher, where art and life served as the starting point for discussions on emotion.

In 2008, she authored the biography of Rui Veloso, Os Vês pelo Bês. At the same time, she was directing the women’s magazine LAmag, a project she created from scratch for Lanidor, which would leave a mark on the editorial landscape between 2004 and 2010. From 2004 to 2011, she was also the face of Fashion TV in Portugal.

In 2016, MESQ combined digital drawing with the voice of her husband, musician João Gil, in the project Casados de Fresco. She created live visual imagery and scenography for his songs. This fusion of music and visual art reached nearly a dozen stages across mainland Portugal and Madeira.

In 2017, on International Women’s Day, she premiered the exhibition FRIDA MIRANDA - a tribute to two iconic artists of the early 20th century. With this project, she filled the main halls of the National Museum of Natural History and Science.

Later that year, she painted the mural AMAR, a five-story giant that now enlivens the days of those in Bairro da Torre, in Cascais.

In December 2017, she designed the scenography for the show "João Gil e Amigos", at Campo Pequeno in Lisbon.

In 2018, she performed a live painting session for the launch of the Cullinan/Rolls Royce in Portugal.

She also created the exhibition TEMPERAMENTO, shown at the Picadeiro of the Royal College of Nobles, at MUNHAC. A tribute to Amadeo de Souza-Cardoso, the exhibition featured a large-scale live mural, a nine-meter sculpture, and a video art room. The artist presented an extensive collection of digital drawings inspired by the greatest figure in Portuguese modernism. The work was recognized with the LUX Award for Female Personality of the Year in Visual Arts.

The TEMPERAMENTO exhibition then moved to the Central Core of Taguspark, where the mural Temperamento II is now housed, and served as the foundation for the creation of the MAU - Museum of Urban Art.

Collaboration and collective creation began to take root in her artistic process, as demonstrated in 2019 with Casa de Botões, a collection of 24 art brut works created in partnership with members of the Quinta Essência association.

That same year, MESQ was invited by the Cerveira Biennial to exhibit her piece Jardins de Nós.

In 2021, she resumed her partnership between art and music by designing scenography for Caixa de Luz, a series of fifteen performances held at Capitólio, Casa da Música, and Teatro Municipal da Covilhã.

In 2022, the installation Journey Through Forgetting, developed by the artist over four years, premiered at MAAT. It combined video art, original music by João Gil, and poetry by Mia Couto — a powerful fusion of visual, musical, and poetic elements.

In November 2022, MESQ launched the project Not Disposable – no one and nothing is discarded, a large series of collages forming part of an exhibition that would open in January 2023. The project continues her commitment to reusing cardboard and packaging, emphasizing her return to manual and analog techniques in both two-dimensional and three-dimensional composition.

MESQ has never stopped seeking new ways of expression, moving fluidly between writing and the visual arts.

Her work, predominantly figurative, naturally unfolds into color palettes and delicate lines, forming patterns rich in mysterious messages — as if each piece were a visual text.

She exhibits regularly in Portugal and abroad. She has been invited by Serralves and has public artworks in the municipalities of Oeiras and Cascais.