born in copenhagen on 12 january 1940, she was the daughter of the artist børge erichsen and his wife dorit sørensen. after a year at robert askou jensen's art school, she studied at the royal danish academy of fine arts under the painter søren hjorth nielsen and the graphic artist holger j. jensen (1959–66). her strange depictions of the people she met bear more resemblance to the works of jane muus than to those of her teachers at the academy. some of her graphical works were sketched on the spot but most were created on the basis of memory. her paintings reveal her keen powers of observation, leading to often comical renderings of people in streets and cafés, carefully and colourfully depicted in acrylics. the painter kjeld heltoft commented: "in almost all her pictures, the composition is based on a relationship between people, stairs, windows and doors" leading to "a fully personal pictorial world in which the fragility of the figures contrasts with a solid interior or the heavy stones of a wall."