Sonas, (the name meaning good luck and happiness), was born and brought up on the coast of Caithness in the far north of Scotland where she learned an appreciation of the sea and a love of small harbours and coastal scenes. She studied at Edinburgh College of art where she gained a Batchelor of Arts Hons in painting and drawing and has won many prestigious awards. Her subjects are mainly landscapes and townscapes together with her much sought after paintings of harbours throughout Scotland.

Sonas says 'In my work I combine colour, composition and tones to distil the harmonies and moods I see in the landscapes around me. I find the way the land meets the sea fascinating and compelling. I can spend hours looking at reflections. I would like my images to communicate a sense of peace and an intangible sense of place. My images are my hiding places, where I can escape to a sense of freedom and peace. They are an open secret, between me and anyone with an intimate knowledge of the location. I like my work to be a true memory of a place. Unconstrained by strict perspectives & photographic 'realism'. I like my images to look like what you think of when you remember a place not like what you see when you take a photograph of it.