Bonnie Ogilvie is a visual artist who utilizes Scottish Tartan as a means of communication. She employs Tartan as a base structure for each new portrait, infusing it with her distinctive visual language. Ogilvie translates her emotions, observations, and surroundings into a unique Tartan structure each time, using new colors, lines, and prints as a new tool of expression.

Her childhood diary texts are transformed into a typeface that appears throughout the Tartans, featuring handwritten poems and stories that can only be read by learning her code. This self-made language was born out of the necessity to establish a unique form of expression. Ultimately, the artist's Scottish background and personal connection to the Tartan structure finds its way back into the social fabric—each portrait representing a different person, group or place.