She also established a close friendship with the sculptor Anne Marie Brodersen who later married Carl Nielsen. She became one of the avant-garde artists associated with Kunstnernes Frie Studieskoler which had been established to provide an alternative to the traditional methods of the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts. From 1883 and during the 1890s, she worked as a ceramist with artists such as Thorvald Bindesbøll and Theodor Philipsen at Johan Wallmann's pottery in Utterslev and at G. Eifrig's workshop in Valby. Her creations were inspired by classical sculpture and, like those of her friend Konstantin-Hansen, by Japanese art but she also drew on her own imagination. Some of her pieces were exhibited at Copenhagen's Nordic Exhibition of 1888.