Profile

Glasgow-born artist Sheila Tandy is a graduate of Gray's School of Art, Aberdeen where she studied sculpture and ceramics. She is an artist member of Paisley Art Institute and a past President of the Glasgow Society of Women Artists.

Sheila has had a varied career and over the years has worked as a wildlife artist in Zambia, a museum manager and exhibition designer and Property Manager for the National Trust for Scotland.

Influenced by the work of Margaret Macdonald Mackintosh, Sheila started her own business, Forecast Sculptures in 1999, creating limited edition gesso panels, some inspired by Mackintosh and some her own designs. These are in collections around the world. In 2006 she completed a commission for nine large gesso panels to decorate the walls of the Brasserie of the popular Glasgow venue 'Oran Mor'. These are currently available as giclée prints.

In recent years she has divided her time between creating gesso panels and painting. She finds the immediacy of painting a pleasant antidote to the long slow process of panel making.