She was divorced again in 1945 and the following year married English-born Josiah Skinner, a builder and real estate agent who was also a collector of art and antiques.

[4] She persuaded her husband to build a gallery on the property, an "attractive, exposed brick and glass edifice [which] reflected his interest in contemporary architecture and design".

[4] Skinner promoted Western Australian artists, including Robert Juniper, Brian McKay, Howard Taylor and George Haynes.

[1] She also staged exhibitions for nationally prominent artists like Sid Nolan, Arthur Boyd, Fred Williams, Albert Tucker and Hal Missingham.

[8] In 1971, she publicly criticised the Perth City Council for its unwillingness to display Sid Nolan's paintings of Western Australian wildflowers, stating "an artist of international reputation cannot be expected to be the butt of the casual misjudgments – or is it the deep-rooted and uninstructed prejudices?

The Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery staged an exhibition of their collection in 2007, including multiple works by Sidney Nolan, Fred Williams and Ian Fairweather.

She initially planned to return the honour on the grounds that she had expected an award of a higher rank, describing it as "an insult to the art medium".