Inspired by plants, flowers and natural forms
A berdeen-born Morag Stevenson focuses on still life and landscape, using strong contrasts of colour, pattern and texture. ‘From a very young age, I always enjoyed art and I aimed to go to art school. At the age of 17 I applied to Edinburgh College of Art and studied in the Drawing and Painting Department there for four years. At that time, my lecturers were the well-known Scottish artists Elizabeth Blackadder, James Cumming and Robert Callender.
Following art college I did a further year of teacher training and I continued to teach art full-time just outside Edinburgh. Throughout my teaching career I always painted, but mainly in the holidays, as anyone who has taught in a secondary school will know how demanding and time-consuming teaching can be! I was also bringing up my family, and it’s really just in the past four years since I retired that I’ve had some more time to myself and to fully get back into
