Morag Muego“Spirit of place” is the title of a new exhibition of paintings and prints by Morag Muego in Gracefield Arts Centre Cafe Gallery. Morag studied drawing and painting at Glasgow School of Art in the late 1960s. Since then, her painting has gradually moved closer to abstraction.

The paintings are about the city of Venice and Morag has approached the subject through a series of large canvases, with the aim of capturing the spirit of the floating city.

Morag’s first encounters with Venice were in the early 1990s. Last summer she returned there and was struck again by the city’s unique qualities.

The large paintings take different aspects of the city’s fabric and reduce them to simple colours and shapes. Sometimes the shapes are mysteriously soft and indistinct, at other times clear and sharp as though lit by bright sunlight.

By contrast, a set of seven small paintings show yellow canaries singing from their cages in the top windows of Venetian homes. When the sun shines, they can be heard clearly from street level and their songs seem to add colour to the city.

The exhibition continues until 3pm on December 24th.

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