seven years. During this time in 1892, she was also took up painting from nature and teaching art. To teach, Flockton opened up a studio in Victoria Chambers, Castlereagh Street in Sydney. In the early 1900s, Flockton started to engage more in commercial art. Twelve of her lithographs depicting Australian wild flowers were used to promote the smoking of cigarettes as part of an intensive add campaign. Her lithographs quickly became popular and were further publicized through the printing of her lithographs as postcards. Unfortunately, Flockton never received the recognition she deserved for her work. Though she included her signature in all of her lithographs, companies who profited off of her work did not include it. Therefore, her work was extremely popular but her name did not popularize with it. Royal Art Society Flockton became a member of the Royal Art Society of NSW where she exhibited her watercolors and oil paintings from 1894-1901 alongside Sidney Long, Arthur Streeton, Tom Roberts, and other noteworthy artists. During this time, she exhibited 39 of her watercolor paintings which consisted of various studies and still-lifes. In 1895, Flockton exhibited six watercolors, calling them “Australian WildFlowers''. One depicts the state’s official floral emblem, the Waratah, and was bought by the NSW Royal Art Gallery. Another one of her watercolor paintings was selected to be included in an Album for Queen Victoria’s Diamond Jubilee. A painting of two dead parrots done by Flockton was also included in the Australian Federation Album presented to the Duke and Duchess of York in 1901. This was her last year of painting for the Royal Art Gallery. Near the time of her recognition, Joseph Maiden, the director of the botanic gardens, was founding the National Herbarium of New South Wales. He was determined to make it a successful institution that collected, identified, documented, and stored both Australian and exotic plant life. After learning of Flockton from her watercolor Watarah, Maiden invited her to work for him at the Herbarium in 1901. It was then that Flockton decided to give up painting and instead pursue a professional career as a scientific botanical artist for the Sydney Botanic Gardens. Royal Botanic Gardens, Sydney Flockton started work at the National Herbarium of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Sydney on 3 June 1901 at the rate of "2 shillings per hour" and was earning £330 per annum at her retirement in 1927.There are some