Cameron trained at the Glasgow School of Art from 1890 to 1893, and then at the Atelier Colarossi in Paris. She was part of the progressive group of young women artists discussed in Jude Burkhauser's Glasgow Girls. Women in Art and Design 1880-1920. A photograph survives showing Cameron in the studio with these women, who proclaimed themselves The Immortals. Signaling their ambition to become immortal, in the same way as male artists.

Discrimination against women in the Scottish art world had spurred the formation of the Glasgow Society of Lady Artists in the 1880s, and Cameron became an active member. Cameron showed her watercolor and gouache paintings and etchings in Britain and America...