Born in Paisley, Norman attended Glasgow School of Art in the late 1960s. A highly successful figurative and landscape artist, he built a reputation as one of Scotland’s foremost portrait painters. His list of sitters is a who’s who of business and landed aristocracy, as are his many private and corporate collectors who include HRH The Duke of Edinburgh, The Princess Royal, Glasgow University, Heriot Watt University, Flemings and Guinness. He was appointed President of Glasgow Arts Club in 1993.