 May and nine other women artists continued a lasting friendship and working relationship that would later become widely recognized as the Beaver Hall Group.The group continued to exhibit, often including the painters Prudence Heward, Kathleen Morris and Ethel Seath.Directly after her involvement and association with the Royal Academy, May, along with Randolph Hewton, Edwin Holgate and Lilias Torrance Newton, Mabel Lockerby and many others founded the Beaver Hall Hill Group.