Between 1940 and 1970 she was the sole teacher (part-time) of art and botany at the Broken Hill Technical College, where from 1947 she also ran art classes for forty local children on Saturday mornings [REF].
A talented artist and graphic designer in oils and watercolours, she failed to attract critical acclaim in her own right, but from the early 1950s was instrumental in zealously promoting the art and artists of Broken Hill.