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Inspiration from Artists Wk 70 Bonus Artist : John Lowrie Morrison .
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Wellcome to this weekends bonus artist the artist this weekend is
John Lowrie Morrison OBE. Born 1948 In Glasgow and is known as Jolomo, a Scottish Contemporary Artist producing expressionist oil paintings of Scotland.
He studied Fine Art- Drawing and Painting at Glasgow School of Art 1967- 1971, he went on to undertake the Postgraduate Studies at GSA in 1972-73 , then a Dip Ed 73 -73 . He worked in teaching art for twenty five years in Mid Argyll.
I hope you enjoy his artwork.
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Lots of Jolomos up here on Bute -- I've seen a few in the flesh (and there was one for sale in the Castle Gallery in Rothesay last time I visited). Some are pretty large. They don't quite work for me. I can't put my finger on why but I think it has something to do with a forced looseness that clashes with the more formal representational elements of the scene. However, there's no arguing that they bring an immediate colourful impact to a room.
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Yes, I do enjoy his artwork - a lot of it must be knife painting, I would have thought. On the other hand, I'm not drawn to Expressionism, particularly when related to a landscape whose colours and atmosphere Morrison makes little or no attempt to capture - there's a "colourful impact" all right: I'm not convinced that there's much else to recommend such work of his that I've seen. I suppose someone whose favourite painter is Corot - that's me - is not likely to go overboard in praising a painter whose colours are not so much Expressionist as Extremist; that is unfair to Mr Morrison - in fact, if you called it a reactionary point of view, I wouldn't have much defence! Trouble is though that I suspect he's influenced other, younger painters - in particular Scott Naismith: whose paintings of Scottish landscape seem to me to have nothing whatsoever to do with Scotland; though if he wasn't aiming to, I suppose one shouldn't complain.
Except, dammit, I DO complain... (I mean, it's something I do really well: if you're good at something, like complaining, well then.....).
I quarrel a bit with the term Expressionist, as well: Dérain was an Expressionist - but expressionism was never just about exaggerating colour: it's not really that difficult to do that - there's just more to it.
Anyway - I like those of Morrison's paintings I've seen, and yes they are bright and cheerful, but I wouldn't want one of them on my wall because, in general, I don't think this style of painting is true to its subject - and I don't like where the trend seems to be going.
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I do like some of his paintings, especially these two, although am not keen on the way he applies the paint in a lot of his work. Looking through his website, he does seem to be a very popular artist and has won a number of awards - and his output is prolific, apparently producing up to 1,000 paintings a year to fulfil a punishing exhibition schedule!
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by Jenny Harris
