Anne Davidson

Davidson used textured materials in the creation of the original models to produce the accurate decorative effects seen in the final casts.

The oil industry, the Royal Mail, William Grant and Sons Ltd., Glenfiddich Distillery and Aberdeen City Council were among other organisations and individuals who commissioned Anne Ross Davidson to model gifts and awards for them.

In 1993, Mario Conti, then Bishop of Aberdeen, commissioned Davidson to create a small figure of St Margaret of Scotland to celebrate the 900th anniversary of the saint.

In 2003, during an audience with Pope John Paul II, Tony Blair, then UK Prime Minister, presented him with one of the 500 statues of St. Margaret that Anne Davidson had designed.

Other important religious commissions she created were: Between 1985 and 1998, she and her husband ran a popular sculpture workshop for the blind, funded by Aberdeen City Council.

Sculpture of Woman And Child in Edinburgh (1986). The statue celebrated the city's stand against the apartheid system in South Africa at the time of the imprisonment of Nelson Mandela and fighting in Soweto township .