[3] Mortimer-Lamb was a mining engineer, journalist/art critic and collector who befriended the artists of the Group of Seven, who would visit the family on occasion.

Recognizing this, Bobak's mother encouraged her daughter to enroll at the Vancouver School of Art studying with artist Jack Shadbolt, whom she would remain close friends with all her life.

She traveled across Canada and after Victory in Europe Day she went to London, England where she met her future husband, artist Bruno Bobak.

[6][7] From the beginning of her army career she kept a diary that provides a unique visual record of the C.W.A.C life during the war that spans from November 1942 to September 1945.

Among the most significant works Bobak created as an Official Second World War artist Private Roy (1946).

[18] After the end of the war, the Bobaks had a son, Alex, and tried to make a living on the West Coast by painting, teaching, and other various jobs.

However, she met Jacques Maritain, a French Thomist philosopher and Vatican ambassador to the United States.

[25] Bobak is now most widely recognized for her depictions of crowds of people, always dynamic, and her work from World War II.

Her paintings of crowded scenes serve to record public events and visual experiences of large numbers of people sharing the same space, time and celebration.