 She showed an early excellence in art and exhibited for the first time when she was 14 years old.After attending a local art school, in 1891 she and her younger sister Edith moved to Bushey to study at Hubert von Herkomer’s art school.As one of Herkomer's best and most favoured students, she was able to set up her own studio, in an old former inn known as 'Kingsley'.