Her studio was gathering place for people from all parts of the island. She taught and inspired a generation of artists, black and white, wealthy, working class and in-between. Generous with her time and talents, she waived fees for promising students who couldn’t afford to pay.

Best known for creating the reredos in the Anglican Cathedral, Lang also worked as a prize-winning window dress for A.S. Cooper's and created spectacular flots for the annual Floral Pageant. She always taught in integrated settings, even though schools elsewhere in Bermuda were segregated. Potter and sculptor Carlos Dowling, who worked as her assistant in the last years of her life in exchange for art lessons, said: “She truly did not see colour.”