Lillie Morris: Heggie's Rock Revisited

Interested in art since she was a young girl, Morris studied art at Augusta College in the early 70’s and has continued to explore a variety of painting mediums as well as collage throughout her adult life. She is known for her diversity, her love of texture and her impressionistic style.

This exhibition of her most recent work focuses on the landscape of Heggie’s Rock in Columbia County and will transport the viewer to the barren, lunar-like landscape of this unique geological place. 

The artist hopes to inspire you to visit the location she has interpreted through her art and invites you to enjoy this exhibition. 

Heggie’s Rock is a spectacular granite outcrop spreading over 60 acres and rising 100 feet high. Heggie’s Rock first appears on the records in March 1769 when Georgia Roseborough petitioned the English government for "100 acres on Little Kiokee Creek, near Big Rock”. The sheer rock expanse is also thought to have been the location of the only two Revolutionary battles fought in Columbia county.

Currently owned, preserved, and protected by the Nature Conservancy, Heggie’s Rock is quite the wondrous ecosystem. It is inhabited by extreme plants that have innumerable adaptations to survive without any soil and withstand extreme temperatures. Stunted trees, endangered species and plants only found in two locations in the entire world scatter the landscape of Heggies’s Rock.

Credit: Exhibition overview from museum website