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Jan Patience, journalist, Glasgow.

Jan has been a journalist since the late 1980s and has gone from writing about packaging and scrap metal with Business Scotland, to writing about visual art in the likes of The Herald and Daily Record newspapers.

Which was what she liked writing about all along... it just took time to get there.

She has been responsible for the deluge of media coverage from 2010 to date on the work of the late George Wyllie, working closely with his family to celebrate the work of this internationally renowned Scottish artist during 2012 under the banner of the award-winning Whysman Festival. She is now a trustee of the newly-formed George Wyllie Foundation, which hopes to continue to celebrating his playfully serious art-for-all approach with a Wyllieum, based in Greenock.

During a lively 25-year-long career in journalism, Jan has chased ambulances for tabloid newspapers and national weekly magazines and even edited the odd magazine. The oddest was a magazine devoted to the paranormal! called Beyond. Her first exclusive in a national newspaper was a story for the Sunday Times about how the funding for Glasgow's reign as City of Culture had been managed in 1990, so maybe she always was trying to mark her cultural card.

She also works as a specialist arts PR, with clients such as the annual GoNORTH Festival and Absent Voices.

She has a long-suffering husband who puts up with her obsession with anti-social media, two children and a black lab called Archie who has a fear of the unknown.

In my eyes, she’s a superstar.