framed dimensions: 57 x 120 cm
Provenance:
The Scottish Gallery, Edinburgh, 2001
We are delighted to bring this fantastic example back to The Gallery. Farnell lies six miles inland from Usan, home and studio of James Morrison. Painted on 8 February 2001, almost exactly twenty-five years ago to the day, this work looks westward across the rolling arable plain of Angus. The winter fields, pared back to their essential forms, are divided by hedgerows and skeletal trees. On the horizon lies the edge of Montreathmont Forest, a favoured route for the artist’s walks and paintings. Towering clouds gather in the west, heralding at a shift in weather, yet today the landscape remains poised in quiet calm.
About James Morrison
Born in Glasgow in 1932, James Morrison was one of the most significant Scottish landscape painters of the post-war period. He studied at Glasgow School of Art from 1950–54, developing the rigorous observational practice and draughtsmanship that would underpin a career spanning more than six decades. While his early paintings focused on the streets and tenements of Glasgow, his move to Catterline in 1958 marked a decisive shift towards landscape and established many of the themes that would define his mature work.
