Marion Drummond was born in Glasgow in 1958. Largely self-taught as an artist, she acknowledges benefiting greatly from attending life classes under Christine Ironside, Drummond Mayo and Ann Johnston. In 2007 she was named by the Glasgow Herald as one of the top 50 Scottish artists in whom to invest. "I would probably describe myself as a representational artist and my focus is on light. My subject matter is always real and studied; number of petals of any flower observed. Subject matter changes from life, still life to landscape, though I would tend to describe the latter more as weather-scape. When painting life I am looking for mood and presence and for the skin to breathe. With still life the colors are all there so I am l...