The family of a fine art student who was killed in 2011 paid tribute to her by planting a cherry tree in her memory at Duncan of Jordanstone College.
Jane Kelly would have completed her degree and would have been displaying her work during this week’s degree show had she survived.
Instead, family and friends gathered at the front of the art college on Thursday to plant the tree and install a plaque in her memory.
Her mother Karen said: “It is very hard but I think we are just happy to be here knowing Jane would have loved to have been at the degree show displaying her art here.”
Jane’s father Graeme said: “I think for the last 18 months since Jane was taken from us we’ve had so many black days. We’ve had to cope with the grief and the trauma of the circumstance surrounding her death.
“It’s hard to feel you can move on but we wanted to do something positive. She was so proud to be studying at Duncan of Jordanstone that we thought it right to celebrate what would have been her degree show week at the place where she was happiest.”
Jane was killed by her boyfriend Mark Jarvie at a house in Powmill, Kinross-shire.
Her youngest sister Isla, 6, helped other members of her family plant the tree which will blossom every year around the time of the degree show.
The family also launched a fundraising campaign in Jane’s memory.
“We are calling it journeyforjane.com,” Graeme said. “Jane had a love of travel and a love of art, in particular Russian art. After her death we found out she had been posting art on a website.
“When we looked there were the usual scenes of Russia and under one she had written ‘One day I will get to Russia’.”
Jane never fulfilled her dream but now Graeme and Jane’s brother Craig, 27, plan to go to Moscow and raise money to fund an exchange between Duncan of Jordanstone and an art college in Moscow.
Additional funds will go to bereavement charity PETAL, which supported the family following Jane’s death.