 One of Scotland's best known politicians, the late Margo MacDonald, has been commemorated at the Scottish Parliament with the unveiling of a portrait of her by the artist Gerard Burns. The event brought together a range of public figures, friends, family and former colleagues, all remembering the independent MSP who was a prominent political campaigner from the 1970s and who served in the Scottish Parliament from its opening in 1999 until her death in 2014. I think the artist Gerard Burns has captured Margo just when she's just about to put that naughty twinkle in her eye which was either she was up to mischief or she was going to encourage you to get into mischief and I always knew when it was coming and that's very important because she was a serious, very serious politician but full of mischief and that's what's captured in the picture. I've discovered over the years that actually my work only really takes on its true character when it's in context, when it's taken out of the studio and put into in situ. I was determined, I didn't want to see the painting until I actually walked through that door and it's made for that spot and I'm looking forward to coming back to the Parliament maybe a month, two months, six months and chancing upon the painting again that's really when I'll maybe see it properly. Well I wanted Margo to be permanently remembered in Scottish life and I thought the best thing was to commission a portrait. What I wasn't expecting was something really as brilliant as this because Gerard Burns has captured her personality right to the nth tee and I think it's a brilliant depiction of Margo at her very best.