[1] After returning to New Zealand in 1943, she moved to Wellington and adopted the surname Barc, which was "Crab" spelled backwards, and took on arts students.
[1] Her pupils included Betty Clegg, Avis Higgs and Elva Bett.
[1] In 1949 she held a joint exhibition with Evelyn Page, Cedric Savage, Helen Stewart and other well-known New Zealand artists.
She painted in watercolour at the start of her career but later worked in pen and ink and occasionally oil.
[1] The Dictionary of New Zealand Biography says of her work:[1] Her lively, evocative drawings of people (and occasionally animals) eating, sleeping, sitting about or playing, demonstrated a strong and original talent and an ability to penetrate the character of the subject with a few lines.In 1959 after receiving an inheritance she returned to Australia, attended the Hobart Technical College for two years and continued to live and work in Hobart until 1969, when she returned to New Zealand.