Growing up in Dublin in the 70s I was unfortunate to lose my artist mother at the age of 10 years of age. I loved art and it was the subject I did the best at in school but it really wasn't encouraged. A job in the bank, a teacher, a nurse or married life were really the only options for females. So I became a teacher, a teacher of statistics of all things!
2 years ago I started to do some extensive family research and discoverd that my mother was planning to go Glasgow School of Art in the early 1940s but the war broke out so she couldn't go and stayed working in the family shop instead. Finding out this piece of information has been life changing for me. Up until this l have been living as a frustrated artist, never giving myself the permission to really explore my artistic self. Thankfully that has now changed. | 
