James Morrison Duke Street Showcase

T H E S C OT T I S H G A L L E RY AT D U K E S T R E E T James Morrison Showcase

T H E S C OT T I S H G A L L E RY AT D U K E S T R E E T Wi t h E w a n M u n dy F i n e A r t 19 - 24 MAY 2014 Private View Tuesday 20th May 12:30 to 2pm and 6 to 8pm Gallery 8, 8 Duke Street, St James’s, London, SW1Y 6BN Open Monday to Friday: 10am – 6pm, Saturday: 10am till noon.

The Scottish Gallery and Ewan Mundy Fine Art have been exhibiting annually in London for over 20 years. Each year we strive to exhibit the finest Scottish painting, from the 20th century and the contemporary. As part of our exhibition this year we are thrilled to be showcasing a group of brand new James Morrison paintings, in preparation for his Festival exhibition in Edinburgh in August 2015. Also included in the exhibition will be works

by Sir William Gillies, Dame Elizabeth Blackadder, Sir William MacTaggart, SJ Peploe and many more.

Telephone: 0131 558 1200 Email: mail@scottish-gallery.co.uk Web: www.scottish-gallery.co.uk

Front: Approaching Rain, 2.iv.2013, 48 x 75 cms (detail) Left:Winter Sky, 2013, oil on board, 24 x 26 cms

High Tide, 2013, oil on board, 24 x 45 cms

Islands Against a Distant Shore II, 22.ix.2013, oil on board, 29 x 147 cms

Approaching Rain, 2.iv.2013, 48 x 75 cms

West Coast, 3.ii.2013, oil on board, 13 x 19 cms

Cloud Break, 2013, oil on board, 13.5 x 15 cms

The artist at work on the West Coast, 2009

JAMES MORRISON RSA, RSW, D.Univ. (b.1932)

James Morrison was born in Glasgow in 1932 and studied at Glasgow School of Art 1950–4. He was visiting artist at Hospitalfield House in Arbroath from 1963 to 1964 and lived in Catterline before moving to Montrose in 1965. He joined the staff of Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art, Dundee the same year and was a senior lecturer there from 1979 until 1987 when he left the college to paint full-time. His first solo exhibition with The Scottish Gallery was in 1959, this current show being his seventeenth with us. Morrison has painted widely abroad since 1968 when an Arts Council travelling scholarship took him to Greece. Further painting trips have been made to France, Canada, the High Arctic and Botswana but for much of his career his two major sources of inspiration have been the landscapes around his home in Montrose and Assynt in West Sutherland. Since 2009 he has returned to Greece, France and Canada and in Scotland has made two trips to the Isle of Mull.

Morrison’s work is to be found in numerous institutional, corporate and private collections throughout the world and since 1986 he has been exclusively represented by The Scottish Gallery. Full biographical, exhibiting and bibliographical details are available on request.

T H E S C OT T I S H G A L L E RY AT D U K E S T R E E T w i t h E w a n M u n dy F i n e A r t 19 - 24 MAY 2014 Gallery 8, 8 Duke Street, St James’s, London, SW1Y 6BN Open Monday to Friday: 10am – 6pm, Saturday: 10am till noon.

Telephone 0131 558 1200 E mail mail@scottish-gallery.co.uk Website www.scottish-gallery.co.uk Artists also icluded in the exhibition: Lena Alexander Gary Anderson John Bellany Dame Elizabeth Blackadder FCB Cadell DY Cameron Stephen Conroy James Cowie William Crosbie

Joan Eardley JD Fergusson Sir William Gillies Earl Haig John Houston GL Hunter SJ Peploe Sir Robin Philipson

Sir William MacTaggart James McBey David McClure Arthur Melville James Morrison Anne Redpath Duncan Shanks