Public Art

Graeme enjoyed a particularly fruitful relationship with the supermarket company Wm. Morrison's, who commissioned a number of mural paintings and stained glass windows for their stores. Typically, they are sited in entrance foyers such as this one in Knottingly, West Yorkshire, based on the idea of the Four Elements.

Earth, Air

Oil on canvas

15' X 10'

2004

Wm. Morrison's Supermarkets plc
Fire and Water

Oil on canvas

15' X 10'

2004

Wm. Morrison's Supermarkets plc

Detail: Earth

Wm. Morrison's Supermarkets plc
Detail: Fire

Wm. Morrison's Supermarkets plc.

The millennium year 2000 has seen churches commemorating the event by commissioning art, for example at the church of St. Laurence in Rowington, a 'Christ in Glory' fills the large west window; designed by Graeme and executed in collaboration with the Martin Johnson Workshop in York.

Christ in Glory

Stained Glass

2001 - 03

In 2002 the artist's own Parish Church of St. Margaret in Ilkley commissioned a painting for the Baptistry. The result is the 'Madonna and Child with St. Margaret and St. John" - otherwise known as the Madonna of the Moors, in reference to the landscape backdrop. The work was completed in May 2004 and unveiled by the then Archbishop of York, Dr. David Hope, who has since became the Vicar of St. Margaret's.

The Baptistry,
St. Margaret's , Ilkley

Oil on canvas

10' X 8'

2003 - 04
'The Madonna and Child
With St. Margaret and
St. John The Baptist' Detail
The Madonna of the Moors
Detail

Detail; St. Margaret's Stone
Detail; White Wells
Detail; Swastika Stone

Bibliography:
'Graeme Willson' Preface by Patrick Eyres 1998