She lectured at the Sydney Teachers' College and she is credited with changing the way art was taught to secondary students.
She was employed at the new Sydney Teachers' College by the Scottish born academic Alexander Mackie as an art lecturer.
[4] She filled the corridors of Sydney Teachers' College with copies of paintings by the great masters and prints of contemporary work including that of Eleonore Lange.
She ran a sketching club and she would persuade her students to gather around a piece of art in the corridor where she would inform and entertain them.
She persuaded him to switch from poetry to art to explore his hatred of fascism as the war came to Australia.