Eleanor Adair was born and grew up in Glasgow, Scotland. She has had no formal art training.

I've always been interested in how self consciousness alters our identity, so my art naturally becomes a means of exploring how we construct and define ourselves through others. I'm heavily drawn towards figurative art and find the human form the best place to explore those extremities that make the body talk. The bodies that materialise in my own art become an alternative account of the routine human form, bodies for eyes that like to wander. Recently I've concentrated on portraiture and drawn on neolithic and paleolithic archaeology for inspiration. I hope these observations offer vision into much of my portraiture, so that each face crosses boundaries of time and culture and brings something of our cultural past to the foreground. I work mainly in acrylic, oil, ink and pen which for me works best at capturing the relationship of the constant shifts between the physical and psychological expression of human form.