When Fi Douglas was in primary three, she drew a picture of a donkey. It was an excellent donkey. So exemplary, in fact, that the teacher held it aloft so that her classmates could admire her efforts. “I remember very clearly that being a light-bulb moment for me,” she says. “I thought: ‘I can do this?’
And she did. Douglas, now 41, has become a household name in textile design with her much-loved interiors company Bluebellgray; a vocation she was destined for, judging by the creative thread that runs in her family “My aunt went to art school, my grandparents painted as a hobby and my greatuncle was a professional artist,” she says, sipping a cup of tea in the crafting nook of her Bearsden home, where she has spent the morning painting with her three-year-old daughter, Kit. “My mum always
