Peter Morrell

Words add little to paintings. They should present their own case.

I observe and I enquire and drawing is important to me. I like to make things and painting
is what i do. A puzzling thing it is too, sometimes one makes magic and that is my life long
obsession, though I am interested in many things.

Peter Morrell NDD ARCA RWS Prix De Rome
Rome Scholar

Born. Newton Abbot 1931

Exhibitions and collections

Prizes  
British Institute Prize 1955
Art’s Council Prize 1959
Prix De Rome – Painting 1959
Works bought by Art’s Council 1964
Exhibitions  
Delft, Holland 1955
Brighton Art Gallery 1955
Young Contemporaries 1955 – 1959
Gimple Fils Gallery – Nine Young  Contemporaries 1959
Arts Council touring exhibitions 1958 – 1960
Gallery Appunto, Rome 1960
Three man exhibition – New Art Centre 1962
London Group Exhibitions 1962 to present
Towards Art – Royal College of Art 1962
Beaux Arts Gallery, London 1962
One man exhibition – New Art Centre 1964
Grabowski Gallery – six painters 1965
John Moores Liverpool Exhibitions 1961 – 1967
Royal Academy  – Summer Exhibitions 1955 to present
Bradford Spring Exhibition 1963 – 1965
Chichester Festival 1973
Games That Artists Play 1972
Royal West of England Academy 1983
Thirty London Painters – Royal Academy 1985
Royal Water Colour Society 1976 to present
New Academy Gallery 1986 – 1994
Hunting Group Finalist 1986 – 1987
Two Man Show – Ben Uri Gallery 1987
Commission for P&O shipping 1978
Three Man Show – Talbot Fine Art 1990
Two Man Show – Terrace Gallery, Worthing ( with William Rothenstien ) 1990
Two man show – Woodlands Art Gallery, London 1989
One man show – Banque Agricole, Cahors, France 1991
La Diagonal Des Arts 92 Cahors 1992 – 1994
Group Exhibition Ville D’Agen 1993
Gallery of Art, Cahors 1992 -1994
One man show – Gallery Artemporal, Montepelier 1993
Four Man show – Gallery Helen Bou, Dekazeville 1993
Two Man Exhibitionn Gallery Municipal, Luzech 1994
Cambridge Contemporary Art 1997 -1998
One man show, Fire Engine House, Ely 1999
Two man show, Design Guild Bristol 2002
One man show, Salt Gallery Hayle 2005
Two man show, New Gallery, Royal West of England Academy 2007
London group members, Piers Feetham Gallery, Fulham 2011
Group shows, St. Ives society of artists 2010 – 2011
Group shows, Penwith society of artists 2010 – 2011
Plus numerous mixed and group exhibitions.  
Collections  
P&O shipping, A commision of 6 paintings 1987
London County Council 1961
Arts Council 1964
Science Museum , London 1973
Ruth Borchard Collection 1965
Work in Private collections worldwide  

 

 

Educated

 

 

14 assorted schools. Boarding, Day and Experimental (A S Neal type)

Awarded 2 Drawing Society Certificates at prep school.

Apprenticed to Cabinet Maker

 

 

1947 – 1949

National Service

 

RAF Motorboat crew air sea rescue Southampton and Scilly islands.

Day release classes RAF southern college of art

1949 – 1951

1950 –  1951

Worked

 

Ordnance Survey

Jig and tool draughtsman

Beaux Arts Gallery for Helen Lessore, Gallery Technician

1951

1951 – 1952

1958 – 1959

Awarded County Major Exhibition scholarship to Kingston College of Art 1952
Studied

 

 

 

 

Royal College of Art

Life drawing and Painting prizes

ARCA 1st. class Hons in painting

Kingston college of art

1956 – 1959

1958 – 1959

1959

1952 – 1959

Teaching

 

 

 

 

 

 

Head hunted to Teach at Maidstone college of art

Dip AD and BA courses painting

Sir John Cass College of Art

Maidstone college of art

Hornsey college of art

Central School of Art and Design

St. Martins Foundation course

 

1961

 

1961 – 1962

1961 – 1968

1962 – 1969

1970 – 1994

1969 – 1970

Books

 

 

 

 

 

Face to Face, Ruth Borchard collection

Published Artist’s self portraits Sansom and Co.

The watercolour expert, Royal Watercolour Society

published Cassell.

The London Group 90 years, published The London Group

 

2004

 

2004

2003