You’ve Been Trumped filmmaker Anthony Baxter’s new documentary about Scottish landscape painter James Morrison presents an unexpectedly tender portrait of the artist as an old man. Unlike his previous high-profile films – about former US president Donald Trump’s corporate assault on the Aberdeenshire coastline and a town in crisis thanks to civic negligence of its water system in Flint, Michigan – Eye of the Storm sees Baxter in quieter, more reflective mode in his home town of Montrose. Eye of the Storm, a reference to Morrison’s habit of painting outside in all weathers for most of his career, was filmed by Baxter during the last two years of his life. The Glasgow-born artist, who trained under David Donaldson at the city’s school of art in the early 1950s, died last August at the age of 88 after a career spanning six decades. Morrison’s quest to paint people-free transcendent moments in time and space took him all over the world, but he is best remembered f
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1 The death of my father MY father was originally a Cistercian monk. He decided to leave the monastery though, and worked in a jeweller’s shop in Nottingham. This was where he met my mother, through the Catholic church in the city. She was working in Nottingham as a teacher, having moved from her home town of Montrose. My childhood was actually pretty idyllic. I have a brother, Christopher, and a sister, Mary Jane, and the five of us had a good life together. We moved to Chepstow in South Wales. That had been a huge change because we moved from a house with a garden to a shop that my parents bought. We lived above the shop, which was fine, but there was only one bedroom for the five of us. My parents did a pretty good job of dividing the space to suit our needs a bit better.