Illuminated letters

Recently I have been involved with the ‘illuminated letters‘ project  : beautiful letters to inspiring woman, in conjunction with GOMA and Glasgow womens library.
My Letter is to Barbara McClintock, a heroine of mine. Barbara’s experiments with maize breeding provided the first detailed description of transposable elements ‘jumping genes’ – a concept which revolutionised the central dogma  of biology and left a lasting legacy of superb experimental inquiry.