[1][2] She was versatile in many media, including pastels, oils, watercolours and pencil, a successful miniaturist and from an early age made and exhibited jewellery.

[7][8] In 1917, they also contributed to the NZ Freelance Christmas Annual,[9] Described as "56 pages of lively, well-drawn cartoons, amusing stories and sparkling topical verse".

[15][16][17] The couple became prominent in the Sydney art scene, exhibiting alongside the likes of Tom Roberts, Grace Cossington Smith and Thea Procter, Roland Wakelin,[2] the latter Bowring's contemporary from the Wellington Technical School and both were students of Antonio Dattilo Rubbo.

"[6] During this time she had many commissions for portraits, especially of children, and of men leaving for active service in World War II.

[19] Her portrait of the daughter of the tobacco manufacturer, newspaper proprietor, parliamentarian and philanthropist, Hugh Denison (1865–1940) was the first four colour print reproduced on the cover of the Australian Women’s Day,1941.