GILLIAN KINGSLAKE studied Art and Design at the Froebel Institute, London as the main component of her teaching degree. She has worked with textiles and varied media, but lately has concentrated on painting, both watercolour and oil. She takes part in many exhibitions including the Holroyd Art Gallery, the Open College of the Arts (Newcastle), the Lillie Art Gallery (Milngavie), the annual exhibition in Glasgow in aid of Macmillan Cancer Relief, the Glasgow West-end Festival, and several smaller exhibitions around Glasgow. She has been a prize-winner at the Bearsden Art Club annual exhibition and was delighted to receive the newly created Milngavie Art Club prize in 2008. Her pictures are in many private collections in Scotland and around the world. She lives in the West of Scotland where she works on location and also in her attic studio at home. Since retiring early, Gillian continued her studies at Glasgow Art School adult classes as well as at the Open College of the Arts. She is married with three children and six grandchildren.

Rum from Morar Sands

Summer Sunshine, Tayvallich

Uist, Reflections