The work of Fred Morrison is an idyllic journey, a trip, through the colors and the beauty of insular landscapes that has inspired him throughout his life.

Falling scarves and the ocean’s bottom. Oil on water. A wing. A curtain. A jet trail of paint pulled evenly across another color’s field. Light is refracted through the motion and substance of the sea. Fred Morrison strives for and achieves a balance between light and water. These most elemental forces are evident elsewhere throughout his work. But here they come to gather and the fusion that results is an abstract, forceful treatment of a naturalistic subject.

Brushstrokes are almost nonexistent in his paintings. Sources are merely hinted at. In his paintings, the artist is much more likely to be brash. His strengths are put to their fullest use – color patterning, brilliant palette, unhesitating lines, a sense of depth and motion unrestricted by naturalistic form.