 Currumbin and the Australian bush are now regular subjects in her landscape paintings.Cummings and her brother, Malcolm, would draw still lifes constructed by their mother, who was a primary school teacher, until her father said "let the kids draw what they want.” Cummings’ father, Robert Cummings, was an architect, a Professor of Architecture at the University of Queensland, an art collector and trustee of the Queensland Art Gallery.Cummings would regularly attend paint workshops run by Australian Artist Vida Lahey at the Queensland Art Gallery.