John Lowrie Morrison Croftscape
April 02, 2010
John Lowrie Morrison, Jolomo exhibition
A Scottish Croftscape
presented by
Corrymella Scott Gallery
Air Gallery, 32 Dover Street, London W1S 4NE
16-21 May 2010 Mon- Fri 10am-2pm Sat 10am - 4pm
Jolomo - John Lowrie Morrison 10th Annual London Exhibition featuring 87 paintings of the Scottish crofts and landscape in his vivid style.
"My enduring fascination with the Scottish croft goes back a long way. My family came from a ‘blackhouse croft’ on the Isle of Harris... The croft still stands although modernised... so my roots are in a croft. This has led me to paint crofts all my life... my first croft drawings and paintings being in the 1950’s... I am obsessed with the croft gable end... even when a croft is disused as with crofts cleared during the Highland Clearances... The croft may fall down in ruin... but the gable end remains like an epitaph!"
John Lowrie Morrison was born in Glasgow and trained at the Glasgow School of Art. He worked in education for 25 years, taking up full time painting in 1997. In the last decade he has become one of Scotland’s most successful living artists. In the 2011 New Year’s Honours List he received an OBE for services to art and to charity in Scotland. He lives and works in Argyll.
Contact:
corrymella@corrymellascottgallery
tel: 07763 789112
View full exhibition at:-
www.corrymellascottgallery.co.uk
Keywords: jolomo John Lowrie Morrison Scottish Artist Hebrides painting Scottish Contemporary Art landscapes oils
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