John Lowrie Morrison

John Lowrie morrison

Selling £2m of landscape art a year, his images on mugs, cards and calendars, one artist who seems to have found an answer is the godfather of contemporary Scottish landscape painting, John Lowrie Morrison.

"If you look at English landscape painting," he says "the colours are much more subdued but in Scotland we have great colour, we love high-key colours. That goes way back to McTaggart and the Scottish Colourists..." Read more

JoLoMo speaks about his work and the influence of landscape on his use of colours.



Landward feature on the work of John Lowrie Morrison, broadcast March 08.



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