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David Morris

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Studied at Leeds College of Art and taught in Hull before moving to Lincolnshire. He was Lecturer in Ceramics at Grimsby School of Art, a full member of the Craftsman Potters Association and ran a pottery studio until he retired from teaching in 1990.

His paintings have been exhibited at the Catto Gallery in London, with the R.I. at the Mall Galleries and with the R.W.S. at Bankside, as well as in many provincial galleries and exhibitions. He has shown in the Laing Art Competition and in the Singer and Friedlander/Sunday Times Watercolour Competition.

In both 1996 and 1997 he was a prize winner at the Royal Watercolour Society open exhibition, he was a co-founder of the Louth Art Exhibition and he is a Vice President of the Lincolnshire Artists’ Society.

His initial training was to study NDD Furniture Design and followed by the Art Teacher’s Certificate at Leeds College of Art. He also studied for a second NDD in ceramics when he was teaching in Kingston upon Hull. After moving to Grimsby School of Art he developed his own studio pottery with his wife Avril until he taking early retirement in 1990 to concentrate on painting. Since then he has exhibited regularly on open exhibitions including the Royal Institute of Painters in Watercolours, the Royal Watercolour Society, the Laing Exhibition and the Singer and Friedlander/Sunday Times Exhibition and has been awarded a number of prizes. He has had many images reproduced as greetings cards, giclée prints and limited editions.

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Abbey

Watercolour 35x30cm

Gibraltar Point

Watercolour 35x30cm

Gibraltar Point II

Watercolour 35x30cm

Fishing Boats - St Jean de Luz

Watercolour 48x53cm £325 (mounted)

Portrait Head - "Dinah"

Life size - Ciment Fondu

The New Dropgate - Venice

Watercolour 38x33cm
£220 (mounted)

St James’s, Clerkenwell

Watercolour 38x33cm
£525 (framed) SOLD

Sunlit Corner - Venice II

Watercolour 38x33cm
£220 (mounted)

St Clement Danes

Watercolour 23x23cm
£125 (mounted)

'Dawn' in the Harbour II

Watercolour 38x33cm
£220 (mounted)

San Giorgio Maggiore

Giclée print 23x30cm £30 (mounted)

Off La Rambla

Watercolour 38x32cm
£395 (framed) SOLD

Harbour Quiet

Giclée print 20x22cm £30 mounted)
Watercolour 20x22cm £95 (mounted)

Grand Canal to Salute

Watercolour 36x30cm £375 (framed)
SOLD

Grand Canal (Giclee)

Giclée print 23x30cm £30 (mounted)

West Stockwith Basin II

Watercolour 33x38cm £220 (mounted)

Eros II

Watercolour 38x31cm
£450 (framed) SOLD

Waiting for the Next Tide

Giclée print 20x22cm £30 (mounted)
Watercolour 20x22cm £95 (mounted)

Flamborough - North Landing

Watercolour 48x53cm £325 (mounted)

Exhibitions

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Work regularly shown at Zillah Bell Gallery, Thirsk and A & K Wilson Gallery, Harpenden.

2009

The Ropewalk, Barton on Humber
Beverley Art Gallery
Sam Scorer Gallery, Lincoln
Holmfirth artWeek
Patchings Art Centre, Calverton

2008

Ropewalk Contemporary Art and Craft Gallery
Usher Gallery
Sam Scorer Gallery
Patchings Art Centre

2007

Patchings 2007 Competition (Great Art Prize)
Holmfirth Art Exhibition
Bircham Gallery (Two man)

2006

Patchings 2006 Competition (Great Art Prize)
Holmfirth Art Exhibition
Lupton Square Gallery, Honley
Royal Watercolour Society - C21 Open Exhibition

2005

Holmfirth Art Exhibition - Featured Artist with Avril Morris

2004

Zillah Bell Gallery, Thirsk (Two man)
Holmfirth Art Exhibition
Bircham Contemporary Art, Holt.

2003

Royal Watercolour Society - C21 Open Exhibition
(The New Academy Gallery Commission Prize)
Royal Institute of Painters in Watercolours, Mall Galleries
(Matt Bruce, RI, Memorial Award)
Singer and Friedlander / Sunday Times Watercolour Competition
Patchings 2003 Competition
(St Cuthbert's Award)
Holmfirth Art Exhibition

Future Exhibitions

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25 April 2010
- 10 May 2010

"10 Years On" - The Ropewalk
www.the-ropewalk.co.uk
Barton on Humber tel: 01652 660 380
This exhibition is to mark the first ten years of The Ropewalk Gallery and will show the work of the artists who showed in the first exhibition in 2000; Twink Addison, Edith Cook, Walter Cook, Avril Morris and David Morris

10 June 2010
- 11 July 2010

Patchings Art Centre - The Barn Gallery
www.patchingsartcentre.co.uk
Patchings Farm, Oxton Road, Calverton, Nottingham, NG14 6NU
Patchings Art, Craft and Design Festival 2010

4 July 2010
- 10 July 2010

Holmfirth artWeek

Holmfirth Civic Centre, West Yorkshire
Large exhibition in support of "Macmillan Cancer Support"



Sales & Contact

To buy a picture, please contact David Morris by telephone or email.
tel: 01507 606 303
email: david.morris@aswellstreetstudio.co.uk

Giclée
The giclée printing process is a label now used to denote archival quality fine art prints produced using an inkjet printing method. This process accurately reproduces the tonalities and hues of the original painting and has no visible dot screen pattern.