From 1925, she travelled to the French-speaking countries of East Africa where she created numerous sculptures and water colours inspired by her impressions of the local people.

However quite unusually for a young woman of her day, she decided instead to travel to Africa in 1925–26, visiting the Niger, Mauritania, Senegal, Sudan and Mali, accompanied only by her Sudanese boys who carried her sculptures, clothes and equipment.

[2][9] Thanks to her careful observation of their bodies and faces, her busts, bronzes and artwork depicted African women during pregnancy, carrying water or at work.

[10] She subsequently returned to Africa in 1930–31, this time at her own expense, visiting the Niger, the Fouta Djallon region of French Guinea and Timbuktu.

[7] In later life, she participated in work on several monuments in Normandy, including the Calvaire Saint-Pierre Memorial in Caen (1961) and plaster reliefs for the Jean Moulin de Venoix school (1978).