Morven Douglas

Morven Douglas is a painter illustrator from Scotland, graduating from Glasgow School of Art where she studied painting and printmaking BA Hons. By taking inspiration from many features of storytelling, folklore and mythology, Douglas incorporates imagery and happenings from dreams as a generative source to create paintings and illustrated stories. Philosophy, Ancient History, Classical mythology and fictitious tales are core interests in Douglas’ practice. Combining and recontextualising a range of historical symbolism and personal symbolism, Douglas seeks to neutralise the impending social political origins of classical narratives by referencing pre-existing polysemic vessels and placing them in compositions detached from their original environments establishing a space for new narratives to take place. The somehow significant symbols of dreams and their strange narratives become pseudo myths in which we become attached to in search for a greater hidden meaning. Sequencing imagery, symbolic figures and gestural mark making in painted works and illustrated stories represent an ambiguous and curious form of the dreamscape; the space upon the borders of reality.