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
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2004
2004 2003 |