She moved into tertiary education as Head of Department in a visual design college in the 1990s.
[5][6] From 2018 to 2021, Bergstrom's notable portraits included Sir Tim Smit, President Tarja Halonen of Finland, Chancellor Ulrika Wolf-Knutts.
She often uses more than one canvas in her portraits to create a time sequence or capture different aspects of her subject.
She described her tryptic of Marget Olley saying: "Using three images in one work became important in expressing time and movement in the final concept: our conversations together.
Bergstrom raised her two children, son Shannan and daughter Alexarndra in Sydney, Australia.