THE late Scottish painter James Morrison – whose work is the subject of this superb retrospective at The Scottish Gallery – was an artist of exceptional insight and technical ability. A specialist in landscapes, his encounters with the natural world achieved an unusual profundity.
Spanning the entire seven decades of Morrison’s career, this show includes two early paintings of tenements in Glasgow, the city in which Morrison was born, and where he studied, at the Glasgow School of Art. Fascinatingly, the painting titled Glasgow Tenements (from 1960) carries within it signs of the great landscape painter Morrison (1932-2020) would become.
