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James Morrison lived in Catterline from 1958 to 1965. He and his wife Dorothy had both secured teaching posts – his was a part-time position just north of the village of Stonehaven. The landscape was a completely new subject for Morrison who came from the urban environment of Glasgow. He began by making paintings of the village and worked around the fishing season – salmon fishing in the summer and crab and lobster in the winter and he would occasionally sail with the fishermen and made a series of paintings of the fishing boats and nets. The Bothy was a standalone building near the pier which housed the salmon nets, creels and lines and The Salmon Bothy, Catterline depicts this symbolic little building which was central to village life. Being part of the environment and local community was important to the artist, his seascapes and landscapes from this period reflect a deep engagement with Catterline and the Mearns. He made a series of paintings at Denhead Farm, which lies approximately a mile inland and, from here, he began to expand his landscape practice by observing the geology and geography of the Mearns.
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