Page "Carol Smillie" Paragraph 8

At 18 years of age, Smillie embarked on her first year at the Glasgow School of Art, studying Art, Design and Fashion, with the vague idea of becoming a fashion designer.

On arriving there, she spent the year unsure what it was she really wanted to do with her life.

Surrounded by punk students sporting green hair and pink shoes, Smillie felt she didn ’ t really fit into this mode of life.

To subsidise her studies Smillie worked in a cocktail bar, and after approaching a local Glasgow model agency, took up part-time modelling.

Her art tutor was into abstract art, which was an area that didn ’ t really work for Smillie, “ Throwing paint at a wall, wasn ’ t what I expected ”.

Another tutor told her, " If I were you, I'd stick with modelling.

You can do art at any time ".

Smillie believing that this was his way of saying, " I don't think you've got what it takes ", decided to leave the Glasgow School of Art, and embarked on modelling as her new career.