She received the Founders Favorites Award from the National Park Foundation and experienced a career turning point as she shifted to portraits.
[2] Swindle is a popular painter of religious art and her artwork and prints are sold at galleries and websites across the United States.
Her paintings frequently are featured in manuals, chapels, and websites of the LDS Church and she is a fixture at Deseret Book Company.
Selections of her work from the Jack and Marilyn Clarke Collection were displayed at the BYU-Idaho Center at Brigham Young University-Idaho.
[6] She likewise made a concerted effort to study the available information related to LDS Church founder Joseph Smith and has produced a volume of works of his life.