"Sometimes I think I’m like a cross between a magpie and a butterfly; skipping happily between obsessive bouts of googling or rummaging around in junk shops collecting shiny things. Mostly those ‘shiny things’ are not so shiny, and often they are downright grubby: old packaging, postcards, books and magazines; vintage tins, jewellery or scarves...you get the picture. 

My first Gillian Kyle collection was inspired by the wit, wisdom and nostalgia of Scottish popular culture - the wonderful, mysterious condition that elevates such everyday items as chocolate biscuits, white loaves and an orange fizzy drink to the status of actual no-nonsense national icons. Right now I’m having a bit of a ‘thing’ for Victorian food and drink packaging made by the Scottish Co-Operative Society, cigarette cards from the 1800’s featuring images of soldiers from the the various Scottish Regiments and fish and chip shop signs. Watch this space."