* DAWSON MURRAY ARE RSW RGI,
TRIPTYCH
mixed media on paper, signed
image size 27cm x 82cm, overall size 51cm x 102cm
Mounted, framed and under glass.
Note: Dawson Murray studied at Glasgow School of Art from 1961 - 66. After his post-diploma year a number of prestigious awards permitted him to spend two years in Italy where he studied under Giuseppe Santomaso in Venice. He then moved to Sicily where his painting reflected the heat and fertility of the northern coast. Returning to Scotland he spent 35 happy years involved in art education. A member of the Glasgow Group for 30 years, he was closely involved with the Richard Demarco Gallery in the 1980s. He now lives in North East Fife and is married to the painter Liz Murray. His passion for watercolour springs from the innate volatility of the medium, the constant vigilance required when painting wet-into-wet and the critical scrutiny necessary while watching paint dry. Dawson Murray's portfolio includes a 50ft high painting; a permanent feature in the Buchanan Galleries, Glasgow. After living with multiple sclerosis for 22 years he is now quadriplegic but is still able to create prints with the aid of an assistant, using his own version of the traditional sugar-lift technique, allowing him to “replicate the bleeding edges of areas of colour” that he so enjoyed in watercolour painting. Dawson Murray's work has won many awards, has been exhibited widely and is held in prestigious public, corporate and private collections.