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Mary Morrison’s paintings are shaped by the vast light and shifting horizons of the Western Isles, where she grew up. Her work explores the relationship between memory and landscape — the way a place is both external and internal, carried within us as a kind of geography of the mind. Through fluid layers of paint, she evokes tidal lines, edges, and journeys, merging atmosphere with annotation: grids, staves, and fragments of maps and tide tables trace the quiet order within nature’s continual motion.

Mary’s practice is deeply attuned to poetry and the written word. Titles often draw from writers such as Kenneth White, Rumi, and Iain Crichton Smith, whose work mirrors her own preoccupations with belonging and transformation. The result is painting as meditation — lyrical, contemplative, and deeply rooted in place.

Her works reveal themselves slowly, balancing abstraction and structure, intimacy and distance. They are not depictions of landscape, but translations of it: reflections on light, time, and the enduring conversation between the individual and the elemental world that shapes them.