Morag Muego - Love Tokens

Morag Muego has a new solo exhibition called Love Tokens at Castle Douglas Art Gallery. the "love tokens"of this title, are in fact, the paintings themselves.

A love token can be described as something given as a sign of affection, and each piece of work celebrates something that the artist has seen, heard, remembered or experienced with love or affection and wants to share.

This allows a very wide range of subject matter, including landscape, figure and abstract work. The style of the paintings also varies, as each idea is allowed to speak with it's own voice.

This exhibition space has given Morag the opportunity to work on a much larger scale and several of the pieces have been made with the Castle Douglas art gallery in mind. These large panels are full of intense colour and simplified shapes - some are filled with the clear light and shade of the Mediterranean, others with softer, more mysterious forms.

Morag trained at Glasgow School of Art and works from her studio in Dumfries. She will be in the Castle Douglas gallery throughout the exhibition time and will be happy to talk to visitors. She is also taking part in Spring Fling Open Studios, Venue 76, May 29th - 31st and has another exhibition later this year in the Gracefield Cafe Gallery.

The exhibition runs from Tuesday 2nd March until Saturday 13th March and is open daily from 10am till 5pm, closed on sundays.

MMV Art Painting Course.

Painting The Nude.

A two day life painting course led by Dougie Muego DA
at Gracefield Art Studios in Dumfries.
Tuesday 24th and Wednesday 25th November from 9.30 – 4.30 each day.
The cost is £85/£75 concession and places are limited, so please book early to secure a place. Contact Dougie on 01387 279888 to book. Please make cheques payable to MMV Art Limited. In the event of insufficient numbers, cheques will be returned.

This is an opportunity to try life painting in a small group with appropriate support or a chance to revisit it for the more experienced.
The model will pose from 10.00 – 12.30 and from 1.30 – 4pm with an hour for lunch and short rest breaks.

Dougie studied drawing and painting at Glasgow School of Art and has long experience of working from the figure. Morning coffee is included. Morning coffee is included - participants can buy lunch in the Gracefield cafe or bring their own if preferred.

Dougie and Morag Muego

Dougie and Morag Muego are at studio 16 on the green route of this year’s Spring Fling at MMV Art, Heathhall Business Centre, Dumfries. Their studio is perhaps untypical of most, but nonetheless ideal for their needs. “We have a wonderful fresh, modern workspace, close to the town, which has very easy access and good facilities. It’s a treat to use and a great place to welcome visitors in. Although we have been mainly working on paintings recently, our IT suite has proved good at handling the digital processes when we’re involved in screenprinting, photo etching and photography. It’s been a great help with the teaching side of the business as well. For our first Spring Fling, both of us have been fortunate in having separate adjacent exhibition spaces. This has allowed us to clearly display our individual ideas. Dougie is showing a range of still lives and landscapes as well as figurative work.

while Morag has been producing larger paintings and has added monoprints and screenprints made after visits to the Cairngorms and Sutherland.

Like everyone else in the Fling, we are working flat out to finish mounting, framing and presenting our new work and the days are too short and too few!
You can see more of our work on our website at:- http://www.mmvart.com/