On return to Sydney some years later George practised as a commercial artist designing in the then-emerging field of neon signs for businesses and theatres.

After a break from study of some years Heather again took up training in painting with fellow students Helen Lempriere, Matcham Skipper, Lesley Sinclair and Madeleine Jorgensen under the tonalist artist Justus Jorgenson in Melbourne,[4][5] where she worked in textile design at Vida Turner's firm at 191 Queen Street.

[5] By the late 1950s George had become a freelance photographer and photojournalist,[5] photographing Sydney’s older suburbs, and stately homes in Hunters Hill[8] She moved to Victoria and recorded the nineteenth-century slate-tiled warehouses of the St James Buildings,[9] the demolition of the Eastern Markets[5] and the construction of the King Street Bridge,[10][11][5] the watch-tower of Melbourne’s fire station,[12] and mud-brick buildings in Eltham.

[2] She continued to be a regular contributor of photographs for Walkabout,[2][5] and many articles of the 60s feature her pictures of that suburb, of Woolloomooloo,[22] Castlecrag,[23] and of other features of Sydney, including Taronga Park Zoo,[24] the Butler Stairs of Kings Cross,[25] the multi-storied Chevron-Hilton hotel at Potts Point under construction,[26] the emerging street cafés[27] Macquarie Street,[28] and the Mitchell Library.

[29] She travelled to Hobart for pictures of the Cat and Fiddle Square[30] Her work also appeared in Hoofs and Horns, Pix, Women's Day, as well as the National Trust Magazine.