[1] She received her training at East Sydney Technical College (now National Art School), and worked as a commercial artist.
[2][3] Kirkcaldie and Stains held an exhibition of Bolton's oils, watercolours and woodcuts (reported under the name Nancy Boulton) in 1941.
[2] Bolton illustrated several children's books, and painted a mural on Wellington's modernist Dixon Street Flats.
[1] Bolton's circa 1939 linocut Cable Car featured in a 2024 exhibition of New Zealand printmakers at Christchurch Art Gallery.
[6][7] At this time, Bolton was teaching at Canberra Grammar School, and was about to hold an exhibition of paintings titled "Houses and Balconies".