When I began my practice as an artist, I came across Glasgow Women’s Art Collective. I have loved having a group of like-minded souls to bounce ideas with. Friendship, sisterhood, conversations, dialogues and exploration of ideas enrich my life when I venture out of the studio, blinking into the sunlight from time to time!

I love to work from life models and particularly enjoyed sketching Katie Vicary. I was inspired by the work of Sofonisba Anguissola (1532 - 1625) ‘a skilled portraitist who brought an unusual degree of physiological nuance to her paintings’. In this set of portraits of Katie, I have sought to capture how the shades of feeling manifest in her changing expressions over the course of a sitting.