Buyers take chance to scoop up gems
Apr 21 2009 by David Whetstone, The Journal
A rare show of Scottish sunshine is on display in the North East this week, as David Whetstone reports
THE name might sound Spanish and the colours might look Mediterranean, but Jolomo was born in Glasgow and his paintings of the Scottish islands are widely collected, with Sting and Madonna among his many fans.
Jolomo is actually John Lowrie Morrison and he lives in Tayvallich, a fishing village on the bank of Loch Sween in Argyll.
Since he started to paint full-time in 1997, having given up teaching, he has become one of Scotland’s most popular painters.
Following in the tradition of the famous Scottish Colourists (led by John Duncan Fergusson), he seduces us with the notion that north of the border you will find a landscape suffused in gold, turquoise, purple, pink and all colours at the warmer end of the rainbow.
See the paintings on show this week in Newcastle and you will be convinced.
Corrymella Scott, who has run two art galleries in Newcastle, has been exhibiting Jolomo’s work since 1999.
The first exhibition was at her gallery on Tankerville Terrace but then, in 2001, she organised the artist’s first show in Hong Kong. Since 2002, Corrymella has also organised an annual exhibition at the Air Gallery in London’s Mayfair. One of them was opened by the Princess Royal.
The London show comes up in May. But this week you can see 30 Jolomo paintings at 1 Trinity Gardens, Broad Chare, just off Newcastle Quayside. The paintings, large and small, look good in the towering foyer of this new office building with its ample light and white walls. Three floors are let to Dickinson Dees Wealth Management whose consultant, David Storey, facilitated the exhibition.
