Blunt started her studies at the Banff School of Fine Arts as a young teenager.
[1] The year before graduating she held her first one-woman show at the now-defunct Canadian Art Gallery in Calgary, Alberta in 1966,[2] and then returned to England to complete the work for her diploma.
She then moved to California and started a teaching career, living in the San Francisco Bay area for three years before returning to Vancouver, where she continued teaching in both private and public institutions, including three years on the faculty of the Fine Arts Department at the University of British Columbia.
She became known for her trompe-l'œil paintings and designed the optical illusion room for the Science World museum in Vancouver in 1988.
Between 1991 and 1992, while living in France she took part in five shows, group and solo, winning an award in an international competition.