I have always enjoyed drawing, painting and embroidery.  When I was 5 years old, I accompanied my sister Isobel to the Paisley Museum and Art Galleries for their summer competition.  I won a prize for my drawing of a bird on a tree.  Years later, when I was 11 years old, I entered the same competition and won first prize!  I remember the day of the prize giving very well!  It took place on the 22nd November 1963.  In the evening, I was painting with my new paints (which I had chosen as a prize) when my sister Janet burst into the living room to say that President Kennedy had been shot!
Decades later, when I retired from teaching Modern Languages, I fulfilled a lifetime’s ambition to take art classes, and I enrolled in some courses at the GSA.  
I am so happy now to have sold some of my work and to be part of the collective!

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