Big storm, Saligo Bay, 24x36

WESTERING HOME TO ISLAY westering home is a famous Scottish Song which takes me back to my Chorus childhood in the 1950’s when my family and Aunts and Uncles and Cousins Westering Home, and a song in the air, got together at New Year and sung till ‘The Bells’. Light in the eye and it’s goodbye to care. Fiddles .. Piano and Mouthie sufficed – no TV then ! Laughter o’ love, and a welcoming there, Isle of my heart, my own one. The song we always sang was Westering Home … a song about Ileachs who have travelled far away from home to make a life, but dream about going 1 Tell me o’ lands o’ the Orient gay, back. Speak o’ the riches and joys o’ Cathay; Eh, but it’s grand to be wakin’ ilk day So this is what the exhibition is about … The love of a place .. and that To find yourself nearer to Islay. feeling we all sometimes have … about being drawn to returning home to our ‘roots’ .. a feeling that doesn’t leave .. especially if family are still there 2 at home .. and especially if that place is superbly beautiful ! Where are the folk like the folk o’ the west ? Canty and couthy and kindly, the best. islay is a most beautiful Isle .. queen of the hebrides … they say. There I would hie me and there I would rest At hame wi’ my ain folk in Islay. I never get bored of painting isla as its called. 3 It’s ever changing light from Sun to Storm draws me more and more. Now I’m at home and at home I do lay Dreaming of riches that come from Cathay I’ll hop a good ship and be on my way I’ll never forget March 2006 when I took the early ferry from kennacraig on what turned out to be a most beautiful day with a most fantastic light And bring back my fortune to Islay. that I have never seen before or since !

Most of the day it went from sun to heavy snowstorms .. absolutely Written by Sir Hugh S. Roberton in the 1920’s, wonderful! possibly derived from the Irish Gaelic Song ‘Trasna na dTonnta

No wonder Ileachs always want to return to isla. The tune is a modified version of the traditional ‘Mucking o’ Geordie’s Byre.’

Dr. John Lowrie Morrison OBE Sir Hugh Roberton was the founder of the Glasgow Orpheus Choir. tayvallich SCOTTISH ART PORTFOLIO is delighted to present a solo exhibition of new paintings by JOHN LOWRIE MORRISON O.B.E. ‘Westering Home to Islay’ at The Dundas Street Gallery 6a Dundas Street Edinburgh EH3 6HZ

Tel: 0131-558-9363

14th - 28th April 2018

Monday - Friday: 10.30am - 5.30pm Saturday: 10.30am - 4.00pm

Colin & Terry Kirkwood are delighted to invite you and your guests to the Exhibition Preview with John Lowrie Morrison on Saturday 14 April, 2018, 12 noon- 2.00pm Ardnave Beach, Isle of Islay 20x20 Please note paintings are for sale on receipt of this catalogue and more of the work will be found on www.scottishartportfolio.co.uk

Telephone Colin Kirkwood on: 01796 470081 or mobile: 07713 133524 (Specialist fine art shipping can be arranged)

A percentage of the Artist’s profits will go to The Carer’s Trust Sunrise on the Mull of Kintyre from Islay 10x18 Westering home to Islay Dawnlight, , Islay 24x36 10x18 Summerlight, , Isle of Islay Sanaigmore, Islay and the Paps of Jura 10x18 10x18

Windy day on Iona | 40x60 Harvest moon, Abbey Gardens, Isle of Iona | 20x20 Eveninglight, , Isle of Islay Soft eveninglight, back of 36x36 16x30 A summerlight, Crois Mhor, Islay A summer haar, Loch Gruinart, Islay Heatherhouses, Islay 16x30 24x24 24x24 Sunset over Dunyvaig Castle, Islay Dawnlight, Bay looking to Dunyvaig Castle, Islay 24x24 10x18 Sunset on the Singing Sands of Islay Summer rain passing Lighthouse,Islay 30x30 18x32 Misty eveninglight on the village, Iona | 24x36

Dawnlight, Port Charlotte, Islay Misty morninglight, Heatherhouse, Islay Stormy sunset, Loch Gruinart shore, Islay 16x30 24x24 24x24 Beach path, Saligo Bay, Isle of Islay Light snow, Port Charlotte, Islay 24x24 20x20

Summer moonrise, Port Charlotte, Islay 18x32 Autumnlight, Crois Mhor, Islay Springlight, Beach, Islay A Machair Bay sunset, Islay (Back Cover) 12x12 16x30 24x36 All images © Jolomo Ltd. 2018 Paintings photographed by The Jolomo Studio Digital Repro & Print William Anderson & Sons. www.jolomo.com www.facebook.com/JolomoArt @JolomoArt