Mortimer - Painting A Social Commentary
A social commentary - severance and divorce, paintings by Mortimer "When I was seven and go to church, I used to use the blank 'note' pages of the Bible to draw," Mortimer McPherson recalled. "The notes were drawings in my Bible." Perhaps a divine intervention that was encouraging this youngster's creativity to ooze from his pencils and send a message to the Almighty, Mortimer embarked on his artistic journey. There were some other key influences in his life, as he was growing up in St Catherine. "My mother was a dressmaker, and I was always observing her process of putting things together," he said, "and there was a painter and sculptor in the community, whose works also inspired me." But, he said, his mother was not too pleased when Mortimer decided to pursue arts as a career. "My mother couldn't come to terms with that decision, my older brothers went to the university and she wanted me to do that too," M...