Early childhood memories of family rail and steamer excursions courtesy of the free and subsidized rail travel that his father’s job on the railways allowed gave Gordon Wyllie a love and intimate knowledge of his native Scottish landscape that has remained with him all his life.

Leaving school after the War, Gordon joined the newly formed Welfare Department of Greenock Corporation. His subsequent experiences in dealing with the mentally ill, the homeless and the underprivileged in this austere period of post war Glasgow led him to re-evaluate his own priorities. A planned university career in Mathematics was abandoned in favor of a place at Glasgow School of Art. He was taught life drawing by Edward Odling and significant...