James Morrison has exhibited with The Scottish Gallery since the fifties and has been represented here exclusively since 1989. His previous show, Decades, which began our 175th anniversary year in 2017, showcased paintings from the seventy years of his painting life. In From Angus to the Arctic, his twenty-fifth show with us, we are delighted to include his most recent work, made around his studio south of Montrose. The show is also a retrospective of the subject of Angus. Morrison first came to Catterline in 1960, a move partly inspired by the presence of Joan Eardley and the beginning of a lifelong love of the varied landscape of The Mearns.
A selection from his three Arctic expeditions, created between 1990 and 1996, is hung alongside as a counterpoint: one group reveals a changing, vulnerable landscape of ice and water; the other, something far more ancient, but carrying the history of man in its fields, hedgerows and hamlets. Morrison’s painting is beyond representation and remains relevant to whichever sky under which he has worked.
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Charleton View details
James Morrison
Charleton
c. 1965mixed media on paperH:29cm W:50cmSoldDenhead View detailsJames Morrison
Denhead
1965oil on boardH:52cm W:89.5cmSoldSt. Cyrus View detailsJames Morrison
St. Cyrus
1970pen, watercolour and gouacheH:30cm W:31cmSoldAngus Landscape View detailsJames Morrison
Angus Landscape
1965oil on canvasH:63cm W:77cmSoldGreen Valley View detailsJames Morrison
Green Valley
1972watercolourH:63.5cm W:105cmSoldFarnell View detailsJames Morrison
Farnell
1973pencil and watercolourH:71cm W:107cmSoldRaised Beach, St Cyrus View detailsJames Morrison
Raised Beach, St Cyrus
1970pen, ink and watercolourH:38cm W:110cmSoldRolling Landscape, Towards Glenesk View detailsJames Morrison
Rolling Landscape, Towards Glenesk
1973oil on boardH:49cm W:91cmSoldFrom the Studio Gate View detailsJames Morrison
From the Studio Gate
15.XI.1981oil on boardH:29.5cm W:44cmSoldLoading
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