Morag Webster

An early interest in drawing evolved into a quest for expression in a variety of media including painting in oil, watercolours and pastel, as well as forays into the production of sculpture using various materials. This drive has also lead her to work as a theatre and film technician, a scenic painter, props and sets builder.
She is also an accomplished portrait painter. Completing numerous portrait commissions and has appeared on the television show, “Star Portraits”, as an award winning portrait artist.

Morag’s work is inspired by life experiences growing up in a family that held the beauty of nature in the highest esteem. She started life in the wilds of Kenya and eventually moved to northern Ontario Canada with her family, spending most of her formative years outdoors camping in untamed nature.
She is interested in exploring how the human population growth exploits nature and how we take for granted the effects our intrusion has on the environment. We often destroy what it is we seek to enjoy, all in the process of trying to get closer to it. Clear cutting forests to build homes in the country, golf club lawn chemicals leaching into streams, diver’s sunscreens destroying coral reefs, introducing non native plants to gardens...

EDUCATION AND TRAINING
Props Workshops, Stratford Festival Theatre, Stratford, Ontario
University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario
Industrial Centre for Women, Sudbury, Ontario
Sault College of Applied Arts & Technology, Elliot Lake, Ontario
Ontario College of Art,Fine Arts & Graphics, Toronto, Ontario
Hereford College of Art, Hereford, England
Portrait Workshops: Yugi Wang, Juan Carlos Martinez, Daniel Green
Small Business Centre, London, Ontario

SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2022 Three Sisters Cultural Centre, St Jacobs, Ontario
2015 KDW fine art studio gallery, London, Ontario
2013 Hittite Gallery, Yorkville, Toronto, Ontario
2011 Wychwood Community Gallery, Toronto, Ontario
2009 Wychwood Arts Barns, Toronto, Ontario
2005 Landon Library, London, Ontario
2003 Bliss Gallery, Port Franks, Ontario
2002 The Arts Project, London, Ontario

JURIED EXHIBITIONS
2010 Jass London, Museum London, London, Ontario
2009 Unabashed and Unbastardized, Propeller Gallery, Unabridged, Toronto
2008 Visual Elements, Woodstock Art Gallery, Ontario
2007 Artmart, Museum London, Ontario
2007 Fringe, London, Ontario
2005 Canadian Portrait Academy, London, Ontario
2004 The Arts Project, The Coves Project, London, Ontario
2003 ArtMart, Museum London, Ontario
2002 ArtMart, Museum London, Ontario
2002 Visual Fringe, London, Ontario
2002 Field Study, Art works in the Multiple, Gee Long, Australia
2001 From Ritual to Romance, Catalyst Arts, Belfast, Ireland

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2021 Land to See, Benmiller
2020 Off Camera Toronto, Gallery 1313
2019 Unsettling Nature, Benmiller
2018 Urban Expression, Toronto, Ontario
2017 Under One Roof, Toronto, Ontario
2016 Art on the Trail, Elliot Lake, Ontario
2016 Press Pl...