In 1951 she won the Claude Hotchin Jubilee junior art prize,[2] and in the Youth Art Exhibition following year her painting of the Fremantle Harbour was accepted for the International Junior Red Cross exhibition in Toronto, Canada.
[3] In 1953 two of her watercolors were accepted for an exhibition called "Young Artists of the Commonwealth", at which Rolf Harris was also represented.
They divorced and she married again, to poet and arts administrator Ian Templeman and moved to Canberra, where he had a position with the National Library of Australia.
[6] In 1978 she painted a portrait of Paul Hasluck which is held in the Historic Memorials Collection at Australian Parliament House.
[7] She was at one stage a director and art consultant to Molonglo Press,[8] a private concern founded by Ian Templeman.