She holds a BFA from the California College of the Arts. Her work shows in the United States and internationally. One of her paintings was acquired by the Kentucky Derby Museum at Churchill Downs, and she had a solo exhibition at the EHCC: Hawaii Museum of Contemporary Art. Her work was accepted into the Wildlife Artist of the Year 2013, 2015, and 2017 exhibitions at the Mall Gallery in London, England, with her giraffe painting, Sky Creature, ending up in both the Londonist and the BBC Wildlife Magazine. She currently has two rhinoceros paintings traveling with the Artist4Rhino exhibition in Italy. Soward donates a percentage of her income from the sale of her paintings to the International Rhino Foundation.