[4] The following two years her work was hung at the Royal Art Society's annual exhibition,[5] including "Une Jeune Fille" in 1911 which was described as "a charming portrait...attractive, sympathetic, and arresting; the colour scheme is admirable, and the painting of the silk garment flung over the subject's shoulder is particularly good", Chapman said to be "a promising student...shortly, we understand, to study in Paris".

[6] In France, she continued her art studies at the Académie Julian in Paris, under painter Lucien Simon from 1911 to 1913.

[10] During the war years, she lived in England where she studied with Lucy Kemp-Welch at the Bushey School of Art.

[12] While there she painted a number of works, including seven which were acquired by the Australian War Memorial in 1977–78[13] and others held in the Art Gallery of New South Wales.

[20] Four of her paintings were included in an exhibition of works by Rupert Richardson and her daughter, Pamela Thalben-Ball, held in Canberra in 1979.