ONE of Scotland’s most popular artists has celebrated the opening of his 250th solo exhibition.

John Lowrie Morrison, known as Jolomo, began exhibiting as he studied at the Glasgow School of Art in the 1960s.

He continued to show his work while working for 25 years in education, before leaving in 1997 to concentrate on his art. Since then his expressionist paintings of Scotland’s landscapes have gained a celebrity following, with famous buyers including Sophia Loren and Madonna.

Morrison now lives in Argyll and is best known for his paintings of landscapes on the west coast of Scotland.

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Asked about the milestone exhibition, which celebrates his relationship with his hometown of Glasgow, Morrison said: “As a Glasgow boy, I still love Glasgow, and it still inspires me to paint it again and again, especially the West End with its tenements and leafy roads and lanes. I’ve been sketching there since I was at Hyndland Secondary School.”

The other paintings in the exhibition focus on Glasgow’s surrounding countryside, including the area around Carbeth in the Campsie Fells where his family spent holidays in huts which had no electricity or running water.

“It was all very old fashioned, but absolutely wonderful. From a ridge near my family’s hut, you could see right down the valley. I was out drawing all the time,” Morrison added.

The Light of Glasgow and the Huts of Carbeth is at the Glasgow Gallery, 182 Bath Street, until December 21.

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