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Artist Printmaker Peg Morris loves to explore different processes although she specialises in etching. She has drawn throughout her life; her work is rooted in observation and drawing underpins all the images she makes. During the 1980s, Peg completed an Art Foundation Course at the North East Essex School of Art and a degree in Fine Art, specialising in painting at Gloucestershire College of Arts and Technology. A PGCE and a career in teaching followed but Peg attended etching classes at Putney School of Art for many years and, having left finally left teaching in 2016 after many years of juggling art and teaching, manages a small open access printmaking studio in Kew, where she also teaches etching. She is a member of the Printmakers Council and has served on their committee since 2019. In 2010 Peg was co-founder of Kingston Artists’ Open Studios. She has been a member of Southbank Printmakers Gallery since 2015.

Peg has had a lifelong fascination with dereliction and abandoned buildings and has always felt compelled to spend time outdoors in green spaces. There is something timeless and reassuring about how nature will reclaim spaces we abandon. After 30 years in London, Peg moved to the Surrey Hills in 2021 and the influence of her new surroundings is beginning to show in her work which is becoming increasingly focused on the landscape, and specifically the ancient trees in her new location.

Awards

Peg was awarded second prize at the Royal Birmingham Society of Artists Print Prize Exhibition in 2024.

Peg won the Pressing Matters Print Challenge in 2024 and was featured in the magazine.

Peg has been nominated for Surrey Artist of the Year three times.

Selected Exhibitions

Peg has exhibited her work widely including the following:

Royal Academy Summer Exhibition 2022, 2024

Royal West of England Academy PaperWorks 2025

Printfest Ulverston 2025

Royal Society of British Artists, Mall Galleries 2023, 2024, 2025

New English Art Club, Mall Galleries 2024

SGFA, Mall Galleries, The Mall, London SW1, 2021, 2024, 2025

Royal Birmingham Society of Artists Print Prize Exhibition 2024

Royal Institute of Painters in Watercolour, Mall Galleries 2023

Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair 2020, 2021, 2023

Original Print Fair, Compton Verney 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024

Surrey Artist of the Year, New Ashgate Gallery, Farnham 2012, 2023, 2024

Printmakers Council exhibitions; ‘Thinking for Printing’, ‘Ecologies of Change’, ‘Journeys’, ‘The Latest Edition’, ‘Land, Sea, Sky’, ‘Inkscapes’

Affordable Art Fair, Battersea & Hampstead 2018/2019/2021/2022

Peg will welcomes visits to her studio in Gomshall in the Surrey Hills by appointment or through SAOS

‘Light Space Time’ Solo exhibition One Paved Court, Richmond, 2020