 In due course Kemp-Welch took over the running of the Herkomer School in 1905 and ran it until 1926, first as the Bushey School of Painting and then, after relocating it to her own home, as the Kemp-Welch School of Animal Painting.After 1928 the school was run by Kemp-Welch's former assistant Marguerite Forbisher as the Forbisher School of Art.While still a student Kemp-Welch had a painting, "Gypsy Drovers taking Horses to a Fair" shown at the Royal Academy in 1895.