Leigh Morgan

Although I started work as a draftsman and then as a designer and a technical writer until 1976 when I founded and ran a successful construction company, I have practised art all life, studying with several well known Australian artists including Ambrose Dyson and Noel Counihan and Vic O'Conner.
In 1983 I left portraits, abstracts and landscape painting to take up sculpture after attending a sculpture course with the famous sculptor Bert Fugleman who came up to my new home town of Bellingen on the North Coast of New South Wales.
In 1999 I won the major prize at the Royal Easter show in Sydney which encouraged me to continue my creative urges sculpting the local timbers.
I use the buttresses, roots, forked limbs and butts of the now rare Australian Red Cedar and Rosewood trees scavenged or bought locally in the Bellinger valley or on the Dorrigo Plateau (I also love the 5000 year old Tasmanian Huon pine as a medium). To finish works intended for interior display I apply between 30 and 40 coats of “French Polish” (Shellac) between every coat I rub the wood down with “))))” extra fine steel wool, for exterior pieces I use 2 or 3 coats of Cabots external varnish.
Since 2007 I have been spending 6 months every year working and exhibitin...

Oakleigh Technical School, Melbourne Tech and several painting and sculpture courses.

Recent exhibitions.
2020 Urunga NSW
2018 Le Vigan France
2016 Le Vigan France
2015 Sydney NSW
2014 Raleigh NSW
2013 Parisot International
2013 Coffs Harbour NSW
2012 Fournes Avignon France
2018 Le Vigan France
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