Bestselling Scottish artist John Lowrie Morrison, also known as Jolomo, is set to bring a landmark exhibition to Glasgow’s Mitchell Library later this month.
Opened on Thursday, 19th November, by HRH The Princess Royal, ‘Jolomo@the Mitchell’ will include a vast selection of new paintings of the West of Scotland.
Rarely seen portraits and several new works in a distinctive large format will also be on show.
Morrison's distinctive expressionist landscapes have made him one of the country’s most successful artists, with celebrities such as Madonna and Rick Stein buying his work, and, this time around, he will unveil a number of new large-scale panoramic works, a shift away from his signature square-format for the first time in 40 years.
The exhibition will also reveal another side to his work: portraits and drawings of crofters in Argyll, and striking portraits of disabled children done when he was a student at Glasgow School of Art.
He said: “As a Glasgow lad, I’m delighted to be having a show in the Mitchell Library. I more or less lived in the Mitchell Library Reading Room when I was a teenager at Hyndland Secondary School studying for my highers. Now, it’s a fantastic exhibition space.
“It feels like a museum - the scale of the space seemed to lend itself to some bigger work. I have made a couple of really large landscape-format works. I’ve been painting square paintings for 40 years, so this is a major departure.
“I decided to include a selection of retrospective works which a lot of people won’t have seen. People don’t associate me with figurative work. It will be interesting for people to see that I’m not a one-trick pony, as some people have said.”
All the paintings (excluding the retrospective works) will be for sale, with a percentage of the proceeds going to Carers Trust. John and his wife Maureen are Vice Presidents of Carers Trust, which has HRH The Princess Royal as President.
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