Founded in 2007 by the Scottish Landscape Artist John Lowrie Morrison

John Lowrie Morrison

John Lowrie Morrison OBE , known as Jolomo, is a Scottish contemporary artist.He was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire in the 2011 New Year Honours for services to art and charity in Scotland....

, the biennial Jolomo Award is the largest arts award in Scotland and the UK's largest privately-funded arts award with a prize currently of £25,000 for the winner in 2011.

"The Awards seek to recognise young and emerging artists who are moving Scottish landscape painting forward, and support them in their development."

Award Winners 2007

Anna King (artist)

Anna King (artist)

Anna King, is a Scottish landscape artist "who seeks out forgotten spaces and derelict buildings." She was born in Shetland in 1984, spent most of her life in the Scottish Borders, and lives in the village of Greenlaw, near Kelso....

 Paintings in oil and pencil on paper and board "a painter of quarries and wastelands, an original, modern voice in landscape art." - prize of £20,000.

Runners up Helen Glassford (£4,000), Rebecca Firth (£3,000) and Ingrid Fraser (£3,000)

Award Winners 2009

Keith Salmon

Keith Salmon

Keith Salmon is a British fine artist. His work is principally semi-abstract Scottish landscapes which are created based upon his experience as a hill walker. Even though he is blind Salmon has climbed more than one hundred Munros, many of which have been captured in his artworks.-Education and...

Paintings in oil and acryllic based on his experiences as a hill walker and Monro climber. Prize £20,000.

Rumners up Toby Cooke (£5000), Jack Frame (£2500) and Alastair Strachan (£2500).

2011 Award

Closing date for submissions was in January 2011 and winners will be announced in June 2011. Prize will be £25,000 for the winner and total for all the prizes of £35,000.

Is it an Anti Turner Prize?

This is what Jolomo has to say in a newspaper interview on the subject.

“The brutal truth is that in 10 or 20 years’ time, the ranks of Scotland’s landscape painters, myself included, will be dead. We’re a bit like original Gaelic-speakers, a dying breed.




“There may be arguments for and against landscape painting, and for or against conceptual Charles Saatchi art, I'm just not interested in the arguments, not in the least. I love Scottish landscape painting and I want to see it live on. Unmade beds and bananas on a windowsill? I just don’t get it.”