Sheila moved in to Vespasian Avenue in 1957 and started studying Fine Art at Sunderland Art College that year- and was trained in drawing "the spaces in between" as accurately as possible. Her draughstmanship takes on a new clarity of vision as she draws everything in sight, outside in the back lane,views of the harbour from her bedroom/studio window and her ever-supportive and always busy Mam and Dad and her Grandpa Thomas Fitzgerald - usually asleep
