Full name
Anna Morris
Title
Artist
Location
Somerset, UK
Blurb
I am an artist based in Somerset. I make small scale works using paint and collage in response to landscape.
Biography
Originally from Oxford, I have been an art teacher for many years alongside my art practice. I completed an MA in fine art (painting) at Wimbledon (University of the Arts London) in 2006. Moving to Somerset in 2016 marked a much closer relationship with the surrounding landscape, both the sea and the Somerset levels.
My work explores the transient effects of light, investigating mark-making and landscape through print, painting and collage. I aim to create works that evoke the experience and memory of being in the landscape - of changing skies and atmospheric light.
My process is a combination of painting and collage, resulting in small scale works on card and plywood. The collaged fragments I use are sometimes many years old and I use a wide range of experimental means to produce these through a process of addition and deletion. I often incorporate fragments of prints - monotype, stone lithographs, dry point, collagraph and more recently screenprints. I collate and sift, selecting and combining, layering and reworking until the composition settles into its final form.
Exhibitions
| 2024 | A Room of One's Own (Group), Irving Gallery, Oxford
2nd March - 6th April |
| 2023 | Small Works Winter Show (Group), Spring, Cheltenham
8th - 23rd December |
| 2023 | Somerset Open Studios (Solo), Isle Abbotts, Taunton |
| 2022 | ING Discerning Eye, selected by Alison Bevan (Group), Mall Galleries, London, UK
11th - 20th November, 2022 |
| 2022 | 'Ebb and Flow' (Group), Studio Cennen,, Heol Cennen, Ffairfach, Llandeilo, SA19 6UH
31st August - 25th September 2022 |
| 2022 | RWA, 169th Open Exhibition (Group), RWA, Royal West of England Academy, Bristol
(Oct 8th 2022 - Jan 8th 2023) |
| 2022 | Bath Society of Artists 117th Open 2022 (Group), Victoria Art Gallery, Bath |
| 2021 | Bath Society of Artists 116th Open 2021 (Group), Victoria Art Gallery, Bath |
| 2020 | RWA, 168th Open Exhibition (Group), Royal West of England Academy, Bristol
Nov 21 – March 7, 2021 |
| 2020 | Bath Society of Artists 115th Open 2020 (Group), virtual
hosted on the Victoria Art Gallery website from 2 Nov – 3 Jan 2021 |
| 2019 | Opening show (Group), Irving Gallery, Oxford |
| 2019 | Drawing on Dorset (Publication and Exhibition), Fine Foundation Gallery, Durlston Country Park, Swanage
The exhibition and publication explores current themes, trends, and innovations in contemporary drawing practices. |
| 2019 | Bath Society of Artists 114th Open 2019 (Group), Victoria Art Gallery, Bath, GB |
| 2019 | New English Art Club (NEAC) Annual Exhibition (Group), Mall Galleries, London
Friday 14 to Saturday 22 June |
| 2018 | Black Swan Arts Open (Group), Black Swan Arts, Frome
(Prizewinner) |
| 2018 | Millfield Summer Show 2018 (Group), The Atkinson Gallery, Street
25th June – 3rd August |
| 2018 | Bath Open Art Prize 2018 (Group), Studio44AD, Bath
(prizewinner) |
| 2017 | RWA 165th Open Exhibition (Group), Royal West of England Academy, Bristol |
| 2017 | ‘Coast’ (Solo), King’s College, Taunton
Somerset Art Weeks 2017 |
| 2016 | Wells Art Contemporary 2016 (Group), The Bishop’s Palace, Wells, Somerset |
| 2016 | Mini (Group), West Oxon Arts Centre, Bampton, Oxon |
| 2016 | Dis locate (Group), VW Garage, Iffley Road
Magdalen Road Studio’s exhibition |
| 2015 | OVADA Seven Counties Open (Group), OVADA, Oxford |
| 2015 | Unravelling Time (Group), The Abbey, Sutton Courtenay, Oxon |
| 2014 | New Work from OX14 (Group), O3 Gallery, Oxford
New work from Magdalen Road Studios |
| 2013 | A Grand Day Out (Group), Art Jericho, Oxford |
| 2013 | Drawing show (Group), O3 Gallery, Oxford |
| 2012 | Object Horizon (Solo), Wiseman Gallery, Oxford |
| 2012 | Bristol Affordable Art Fair (Art Fair), Wiseman Gallery, Bristol |
| 2012 | Glasgow Art Fair (Art Fair), Wiseman Gallery, Glasgow |
| 2011 | Hampstead Affordable Art Fair (Art Fair), Wiseman Gallery, London |
| 2008 | Les Chemins du Dialogue (Group), Grenoble Town Hall, Grenoble, France
exhange exhibition with French artists |