[1] She then spent some time in Paris where she trained with André Lhote at the Académie de la Grande Chaumière before returning to Scotland and spending three years as the head of the art department at Laurel Bank School in Glasgow.
[2][3] Kidston left that post in 1926 and enrolled at the Slade School of Fine Art in London where she was taught wood engraving by Thomas Smith.
[1] During World War II Kidston worked for the Committee for the Education for the Forces, running art and painting classes for troops, many from Poland, stationed in St Andrews during the conflict.
[2] During her career Kidston illustrated a number of books including 1927 editions of Matthew Arnold's The Forsaken Merman and The Scholar Gipsy.
[1] Both her sisters, Helen and Margaret, were also artists and after living in St Andrews, Kidston died at North Berwick in East Lothian.