During the 1950s, 60s, 70s and 80s, Forsyth attended many workshops at Emma Lake, Saskatchewan, studying with artists such as Jack Shadbolt, Jules Olitski, Lawrence Alloway, Harold Cohen, Frank Stella, Walter Darby Bannard, John McLean, Tim Hilton, and Terry Atkinson.
Forsyth was a guest artist at an Emma Lake workshop in 1977 and worked at the University of Saskatchewan as professor emeritus[REF] and as an art instructor until she retired in 1985.