Along with her husband, architect and fellow painter William Joseph PIERRE-HUNT, Edith contributed greatly to Polperro society, exhibiting at the exhibitions of the East Cornwall Society of Artists and the Plymouth Arts Club. They were married in 1936 and subsequently moved to Polperro.

Edith was the leading figure initially in the Polperro Art Group, which was formed in the winter of 1963-4. For the rest of the decade, exhibitions were held annually in the summer in 'The Foresters' Hall'.