In this body of work a long-standing interest in the dynamic relationship between landscape and it as the subject of painting unfolds. I began to see land as a constant in the events of history. A landscape can be seen as a site that is persistently present through time and unscrutinizingly bears witness to the events which occur in it. It is a real and a metaphorical grounding which all human activity has come and gone on. These sites have the potential to reflect on the present as a result of the past. This includes a non-specific historical narrative that is in the blind spot when looking at the present. Remembering manifests itself as visual when looking at landscapes with the potential to at the same time see what is there, what is not there and what was once there all of which are inherent symptoms of depiction.

 

“Through loud and intuitive painting Morton shows sensitivity to the history of South African landscape painting as well as critical awareness of land as singularly constant in a world governed by change”

- Jenifer Ball