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 and lithography. When she paints she often scrapes and sands back layers of paint to reveal layers beneath the surface.

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.

Current and Future Exhibitions

Affordable Art Fair, Hampstead with North London Printmakers - postponed due to the pandemic, now November 19th-22nd 2020

'Light, Space and Time' solo exhibition at One Paved Court, Richmond, 1-21st December 2020

Selected Exhibitions
2020
Printmakers Council, Scarborough Art Gallery, 9th February - 26th April 2020 Prints from the 2018 deposition and selected prints from the 1992 gift.
'Imprint' Richmond Printmakers at Putney Library 1st-28th March 2020
Affordable Art Fair, Battersea with North London Printmakers 11th-15th March 2020

2019
Land, Sea, Sky, Ropewalk Gallery, Barton upon Humber with Printmakers Council, 26th October - 1st December 2019

Richmond Printmakers at the Oxo Gallery 19th-25th February 2019
Affordable Art Fair, Battersea with Southbank Printmakers Gallery 6th-10th March 2019

Original Print Exhibition, 54 The Gallery, Mayfair, 6-12th May 2019

KAOS Open Studios 8/9th and 15/16th June 2019

2018

Oaks Editions Lithography Studio at the Riverside Gallery, Richmond 3rd November - 12th January
KAOS at Tava 5th September - 9th January
Kew Studio Christmas Exhibition 7-9th December, 270 Sandycombe Road, Kew TW9
Red Dog Gallery Christmas Exhibition 6th-9th December 2018, Heather Cottage, Oakhanger, Bordon, Hampshire, GU35 9JN
One Paved Court Gallery Original Print Sale 28th November - 10th December
Deck The Walls, KAOS at 1 of 1 Designs, Teddington 10th-24th December
Etching Exhibition at Putney School of Art 12th-30th November
Red Dog Gallery Friday 12th October to Thursday 18th October
Guildford Arts Summer Exhibition, Mill Studio Theatre, 4th-19th July 2018
Artist in Focus, Southbank Printmakers Gallery, Gabriel's Wharf 30th July-19th August 2018
Richmond ArtHouse at Kew Studio, 270 Sandycombe Road, TW9 3NP 22-24th June, 30th June-1st July.
Kingston Artists' Open Studios, June 9th/10th and 16th/17thThe Affordable Art Fair, Hampstead, May 9th-13th 2018.
Affordable Art Fair, Battersea 8-11th March
Richmond Printmakers at the RACC, Parkshot, Richmond 17th January - 9th February
'Visually Literate 2' The Menier Gallery, London, 16th - 20th January

2017

'The Elements' Artichoke Gallery, Church Street, Ticehurst, TN5 7AE, 30th September to 24th December http://www.artichokegallery.co.uk/
One Paved Court Gallery Christmas Group Show, Richmond TW9 1LZ, 14th-17th December
Printmakers Inc 'Open and Closed Spaces', Highgate Literary and Scientific Institution Gallery, 11 South Grove, London N6 6BS,17th - 30th November
Mini Print Prize Exhibition, Morley Gallery, 61 Westminster Bridge Road, London SE1 7HT, 31st October - 11th November
Artist in Focus, Southbank Printmakers Gallery, September 18th-October 1st
Printers Inc 'Open and Closed Spaces', Highgate Literary & Scientific Institution, 17th-30th November
'The Latest Edition' Printmakers' Council exhibition, Linden Hall Studio, 32 St George's Road, Deal, Kent CT14 6BA
Kew Studios Print Room - ArtHouse Open Studios
Richmond Printmakers at the Rose Theatre, Kings
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


Peg has taken part in Open Studios every year since 2007