Mortimer Mcpherson

Mortimer McPherson
Artist Statement

With over Thirty years experience as a fine artist and more than Twenty years teaching Visual Arts I have learnt much, and grown much. I create with any medium at my disposal and that which best fits the subject, whether it be pencil, pastel, charcoal, acrylic, oils or even wood and glass carving. As a Fine Artist I am drawn to the insignificant. I render each moment, each person, each object with love and attention making the insignificant significant. I strive to evoke an emotional response from the onlooker by painting and drawing character and not just reproducing a plastic likeness of my subject.

My interests have become exceedingly experimental with more attention placed on the surfaces of the work itself. Discovering and rediscovering my chosen medium is the everlasting stimulus that keeps me interested and excited. Accidental process and meticulous planning co-mingle in all my work. Texture, either real or illusionary, and that one ever-elusive brush stroke, pencil stroke, the one that says it all; this keeps me searching and exploring.

I believe people are attracted to good drawings as well as the intrinsic pictorial value of a work of art. I also believe that drawing is to ...

EXHIBITIONS


--The Young Generation Exhibition - 1989 - Mutual Life Gallery-Kingston Jamaica

--The Young Generation Exhibition - 1991 - Mutual Life Gallery

--The Young Generation Exhibition - 1992 - Mutual Life Gallery

--The Young Generation Exhibition - 1995 - Mutual Life Gallery

--Achievers Exhibition - 1995 - Mutual Life Gallery

--Painting Exhibition - 1993 - Four Corners Gallery

--Painting Exhibition - 1995 - The Pallette Gallery

--Painting Exhibition - 1995 - Gallery MEK

--Painting Exhibition - 1996 - Gallery MEK

--Solo Exhibition - 1997 - Pegasus Gallery

--Solo Exhibition - 2012

--Solo Exhibition - 2013

--Solo Exhibition - 2014

--Kingston on The Edge (KOTE) - Festival of the Arts - 2012


PUBLICATIONS