mixed media on board, signed and dated '05, titled label verso
framed and under glass

Handwritten artist's label verso
Note: Born in Glasgow, Isobel was educated at the Glasgow School of Art. After graduation, she worked in the United States and France. After returning to Scotland, in 1959 she married fellow artist Ewen McAslan, whom she had met at the Glasgow School of Art. 1n 1967, with three children in tow, Isobel and Ewen left to make a life in Canada. In Manitoba she began teaching elementary school, having spent the previous years dedicating herself to raising her children. A few years later, the family moved to White Rock, British Columbia; she taught art classes at the University of British Columbia before being hired in the Fine Arts Department at Douglas (now Kwantlen) College in the spring of 1971. Deeply involved in women's issues, particularly in relation to art, she started Women's Week at Kwantlen College, presented papers at conferences, and published essays on women in art. Retiring in 1994, Isobel and Ewen returned to Scotland, settling in Pittenweem in the East Neuk of Fife. Here, they continued to paint, exhibiting in the annual Pittenweem Arts Festival. Isobel became active as a board member. After Ewen's death in 2008, she took a step back from exhibiting, but soon her involvement in the Pittenweem community took the form of helping to set up the Pittenweem Community Library. She returned to exhibiting at the Festival, and had a solo show at the Weem Gallery in 2022. Sociable, uncompromising, and community-minded, Isobel remained to the end that rebellious woman who chose her life and chose to be an artist.