Mother and daughter exhibit creative talents

Everyone knows the tradition of sons following in their father’s footsteps,but one artistic family in Dunfermline has turned that old cliché on its head. When Emily Todd realised how much daughter Holly Archibald was enjoying and learning from the NQ Art and Design course at Carnegie, it re-lit the aspirations she herself had had when young and she decided to follow in Holly’s footsteps by enrolling on the same course a year later at the same time as Holly progressed on to the HNC programme. Whilst their creativity sometimes takes them in different directions, they are both displaying their talents at the annual Art Exhibition currently underway in Dunfermline’s Kingsgate Shopping Centre from 2 – 5 June. Holly joined the NQ course straight from school and with a lifetime of drawing behind her. As she puts it, “I feel like I was born to draw as I seem to have been doing it all my life. At school my maths jotters would have little drawings in them, on car journeys I never saw where we were going as I was always drawing. Although sketching and drawing is my favourite medium to work in, here at College I’ve learned to use paint, sculpture and fabric.” Like her daughter, Emily had always painted and made things since she was small, and with four young children, was always making toys and models for them. She said, “Last year I decided to enrol on the NQ course, and while I thought my talents lay in sewing and model making, the course has given me direction and confidence and I’ve discovered I can also draw and paint.” Photographs: Top: Emily’s ‘Spider and Fly’ creation which appears in the exhibition Bottom: Emily (left) and Holly (right) in the art studio in Carnegie’s Media Space, with their work Posted 1 June 2010