Painter of detailed figurative works which can have a slightly Surrealist element, whose father Hugh Paton and grandfather Donald Paton were both painters from the Isle of Arran. She spent many years there before returning to Glasgow, where she depicted the lives of ordinary people, its houses and street scenes. Her father gave her rudimentary lessons and taught her perspective, to which was added an abortive year at Glasgow School of Art. Had a first solo show in 1985, the year Glasgow Museums bought Paton’s work The Barras for the People’s Palace. Windows in the West, measuring four feet by five feet and in watercolour, was shown at Paton’s solo exhibition at The Gatehouse Gallery, Glasgow, in 1994, on loan to the Royal Glasgow Concert Hall.