Like most of James Morrison’s Angus landscapes, the subject here is less than ten miles from the painter’s front door. Here we see the wide expanse of the Montrose Basin, captured from the southeast looking west toward the distant Grampian Hills. Weather tends to build over the hills, and that is the principal subject here, with high clouds moving over the painter’s head and beyond.
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.
