Following her studies at Ilam, she trained as a Karitane Nurse specialising in the care of babies and children.
After her marriage, Mrs Guy lived at Brunswick, Whanganui, Mangaweka, Mataroa and later at Taihape, raising three sons and a daughter.
While living in mostly rural settings, she managed to involve herself with community art groups and continued to paint at every opportunity. Family, piano exams and dressage on a Hanoverian horse took time but Ms Guy still kept up with painting and sketching potential subject matter for later work.
She now lives 15km from Taihape, on a farm that is 600m above sea level. "Winters can be cold - a regular reminder of my McKenzie Country upbringing."
She works in her own art studio, producing paintings in oils, watercolour, gouache, pastel or egg tempera.
Mrs Guy's subjects vary from portraits to landscapes, buildings to flowers, animals to spectacular sunsets.
She is most well-known for her simplistic depiction of life in the high country of the Rangitikei and the South Island areas of the Banks Peninsula, Tekapo, Mt. Cook, Wanaka and Queenstown.
Although a realist in her art practice she does not shy away from including abstracted forms in her works making them unique visual presentations.
