 In the 1960s she moved to the Lynn Valley where she lived and worked for a number of years.During this period her interest in depictions of natural phenomenon grew, and she began developing her individual style which involved working in extended sessions for her plein air landscapes and sittings with models for portraiture.Kipling has described her practice as follows, "When I am drawing from the figure or the landscape, I am fascinated by the change, movement, energy and transformation of form in a seemingly static situation" (Ann Kipling, 2003, "For the Record, Drawing Contemporary Life").