[3] She was first privately taught by two local art teachers, Misses Park and Ross, at a studio at Craigendoran, outside of Helensburgh.

[3] In 1914, Gray was elected a member of the Royal Scottish Society of Painters in Watercolour and illustrated a volume of work by Wordsworth.

[3] Gray adopted a pointillist technique for her 1914 painting, The Missing Trawler now in the collection of Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum.

[3] During the War, Gray volunteered as a nurse with the Scottish Women's Hospitals and was sent to France where she also found time to paint and sketch.

Hôpital Auxilaire 1918 shows the vaulted 13th-century Royaumont Abbaye, near Paris, where women had organised a hospital to treat the casualties of the war.

[3] Gray was chosen to be the first woman to join the influential hanging committee of the Royal Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts.

[10] In 1978 her sister, Tina, left Hôpital Auxilaire 1918 to Helensburgh on the condition that a permanent place be found to exhibit it.