Morag Muir RSW PAI (Scottish) Early Watercolour Still Life with Flowers 61x73cm

Original Scottish Watercolour

Morag Muir RSW - Watercolour
“Still Life With Flowers”

Elegant early exhibition work with 1987 provenance

Key Details

Artist: Morag Muir RSW (b.1960)
Title: “Still Life With Flowers”
Medium: Watercolour on paper
Support: Paper
Signature: Signed verso with artist’s name, title and exhibition details on frame
Dimensions: Image: 61 × 73 cm (24.0 × 28.7 in)
Framed: Original 1980s frame under glass
Condition: Very good overall
Provenance: Purchased January 1987 from Sharon Archer’s exhibition, The Assembly House, Norwich

Description

A refined and atmospheric early still life by Morag Muir RSW, painted circa 1986 and acquired directly from exhibition in January 1987. The composition presents two vessels of delicately rendered flowers set against a softly structured tiled backdrop, creating a calm and contemplative interior scene.

The restrained palette and careful spatial balance demonstrate Muir’s emerging artistic voice shortly after completing her postgraduate studies. This makes the painting an especially interesting example from the formative years of her professional career — a sophisticated and quietly powerful work for collectors of Scottish contemporary art or those seeking a serene focal point within an interior.

About the Artist

Morag Muir (b.1960, Glasgow) is a highly regarded Scottish painter known for her lyrical still lifes and symbolic interior compositions. She studied at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art, Dundee, graduating in 1982 before completing a postgraduate diploma in 1983. During her studies she was awarded the John Milne Purvis Prize and received a major travelling scholarship, enabling her to study medieval and Etruscan art in Italy — influences that subtly inform the structural clarity and symbolic undertones in her later work.

Muir’s paintings frequently explore flowers, vessels, textiles and architectural space, balancing intimacy with compositional discipline. She was elected to the Royal Scottish Society of Painters in Watercolour (RSW) in 2019 and to the Paisley Art Institute (PAI) in 2021. Her work is regularly exhibited in respected UK galleries and is held in private collections. She lives and works in Newport-on-Tay, Fife.

Estimated Date

Circa 1986

Provenance & Notes

Original exhibition label to reverse reads: “Still Life With Flowers – Morag Muir – A framed and glazed watercolour still life – jugs of flowers, details verso”. Purchased from Sharon Archer’s exhibition at The Assembly House, Norwich, January 1987.

Early exhibition works with documented provenance from this period are seldom encountered on the secondary market.