It wasn't until her arrival in Australia from her home in Northern Ireland in 2005 that Bridget discovered printmaking, more precisely, etching. Previously she had attained a Degree with First Class Honours (2002) and a subsequent Post Graduate Diploma (2003) in Jewellery and Silversmithing at Edinburgh College of Art. During these years she discovered that her main interest lay in drawing, rather than the world of jewellery.

She took a weekend course in etching at the Australian Print Workshop in Melbourne in early 2006 and it opened up whole new possibilities for her. Her linear drawing style translates well into the medium of etching, she feels it takes her  'drawings to another level of working.' To develop her printmaking further she pursued an MFA in printmaking at RMIT, Melbourne completing it in December 2007.

Since then she has been awarded a High Commendation in the Port Jackson Press Graduate Printmaking Award and has received a 2008 Australian Print Workshop Collie Print Trust Emerging Printmaker Scholarship.

Her recurring theme of birds, namely Australian birds, stems from her love of bird life but also from how she finds they are a constant reminder of where she is. She says, 'the birds here in Australia are so different from the birds in Britain, even birds I recognise sound different. When I first arrived in Australia it was the birds and all the new squawks and twitterings that really told me I was in a different country, very far from my home in Northern Ireland."