My enduring love is literature, which explains my fascination with drawing writers, something I have done on a regular basis over a period of thirty years. The list is long: Colm Toibin, Richard Holloway, A L Kennedy, Alasdair Gray, Joy Hendrie, Kathleen Jamie and many others. 

Alastair Gray, Writer, Playwright, Artist

If only there were evil people somewhere insidiously committing evil deeds, and it were necessary only to separate them from the rest of us and destroy them, but the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being.  And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart?.  ”The Gulag Archipelago" by Alexander Solzhenitsyn

Michael Shand, Playwright, Novelist

Kafka said that the difference is not between those who terrorise and those who are terrorised, but between those who are tempted and those who are not subjected to temptation.