Peg Morris

Peg Morris

Kingston upon Thames, Surrey, United Kingdom

About Peg Morris

Peg is a painter and printmaker, working in her studio in south west London. Her work focuses on significant forms, and patterns in natural and urban landscapes. A common thread linking much of her art is decay. Inspiration might come from a weather beaten, decomposing tree stump, a track worn into the landscape by generations of feet, the crumbling and erosion of landscapes or the peeling paint or crumbling stonework on an old or neglected building. Peg finds that the process of etching lends itself to representing these themes as the plate is itself eroded by the acid, scraped and polished, scratched and sometimes cut into fragments. She has recently begun to explore other printmaking methods including collagraphs. When she paints she often scrapes and sands back layers of paint to reveal layers beneath the surface.

Education:

Foundation - North East Essex School of Art 1984-5
BA (Hons) Fine Art (Painting) - Gloucestershire College of Arts and Technology 1988
Peg studied etching at Putney School of Art for a number of years.

Events:

Peg was nominated for the Surrey Artist of the Year in 2012

Exhibitions:

Selected Exhibitions
2015
Richmond Views, Orleans House Gallery, Richmond
Richmond Printmakers, The Pie Factory, Margate
Landscopes, 54 The Gallery, Mayfair, London
KAOS/10 Craft Central Gallery, Clerkenwell, 19th-25th October 2015
Good Impressions, Richmond Printmakers, Stables Gallery, Orleans House
The Light Years, 15 years of SBP, The Lightbox Gallery, Woking
2014
KAOS at Christmas, Fountain Gallery, East Molesey
BBK Art in transit, Oldenburg, Germany
Not the Royal Academy, Llewellyn Alexander Gallery
Drawn Together, Riverside Gallery, Richmond
Richmond Printmakers, Babylon Gallery, Ely
Art@Baker Tilly, Guildford
Teddington Artists, The NPL Atrium, Teddington
Points of View, Richmond Printmakers, The Stables Gallery, Orleans House

2013
Landmark Autumn Art Fair, 2011, 2012, 2013
Not the Royal Academy, Llewellyn Alexander Gallery
Teddington Artists, The NPL Atrium, Teddington
From Landscape to Abstraction, The Fountain Gallery, East Molesey
Richmond Printmakers at The Art Agency Gallery
2012
Richmond Printmakers at the Orange Tree Theatre
Nominated for Surrey Artist of the Year, New Ashgate Gallery, Farnham
KAOS autumn exhibition, Kingston Market House
Cork Street Open Exhibition, August 2012
Gallery 63A, Kingston
2011
Richmond Printmakers at the Orange Tree Theatre
Kingston Fair Art Fair, Market House, Kingston
KAOS Show, Southfields Gallery 2011
KAOS Launch Exhibition, Market House, Kingston upon Thames May 2011
b-gallery, Toddington, Bedfordshire 2010-11
2010
Untitled Art Fair, Chelsea Town Hall, June 2010
Surrey Open Art Competition, The Lightbox Gallery, Woking 2010
Landmark Art Gallery Show, Teddington, January - February 2010
icon, Kingston,
Peg has taken part in Open Studios every year since 2007
Future exhibitions:
Anagrams, Kingston Museum opening April 2016
Not the Royal Academy, Llewellyn Alexander, The Cut Waterloo May-Aug 2016
Kingston Artists Open Studios June 11/12 and 18/19th
ARTEliers Oldenburg, Germany, September 2016
Teddington Artists, Normansfield Theatre October 2016