Docherty’s work, is both corporal and ethereal. In this degree show she is exploring the transitory nature of lives, of languages and religions, the divinity of the face in a wider biblical framework and the face symbolising the unique manifestation of an individual’s character and spiritual state.

It all starts with her portraiture through which she explores death, life after death and rebirth. She then expands the work, through her research, and moves it into different areas, materials and imaginings. Emotionally Docherty endeavours to find in her subjects faces their hidden secrets like sadness, theirs and her own, joy, anger, hope and hopelessness, burden and divinity.

Docherty embraces many different materials and styles in her drawings, paintings, sculptures, collages, abstract paintings and glass works, preferring to work organically and spontaneously, driven by her inner voice which leads her to use whatever and whoever inspires her most.

Metaphysically, Docherty feels part of a Collective Consciousness. A place where she isn’t isolated but instead is a part of a larger interconnected world, where her individual awareness’s and experience’s are intertwined with a broader universal awareness that binds her to all living things. When drawing, painting or sculpting in this space, Docherty feels that she becomes conjoined with her subjects like partners in a silent universal agreement.

Docherty describes this; “ I sense that just as they are all these things, I am all these things as are we all all these things and for that small time, I feel that I can see our souls, who we have been and who we may become, in this life, the last life and the one to come. I love this ancient human puzzle that I have chosen to work out, so each part of my show may be seen as a clue to the face of our souls, I have dared build a modest church of the Collective Consciousness for those andsuch as those to come and meditate for a while.”