Simon Morriss SGFA

Biography 

Simon Morriss is an artist based in the Cotswolds. He has exhibited with the Royal Institute of Painters in Watercolour, in the Royal Watercolour Society Contemporary Watercolour Exhibition and at the Royal West of England Academy. In 2012, he was elected an associate member of the Society of Graphic Fine Art and promoted to full membership in 2016.

After a career in Architecture, he returned to study gaining a Foundation Degree in Creative Practice from the University of the West of England and, in 2014, an MA in Fine Art from Birmingham Institute of Art and Design.

The image shown above was a commission for Carterton Community Centre completed in 2024. It depicts elements from the town’s development since its founding in 1900. It measures 3900 x 1500mm and is painted in acrylic on panels mounted on aluminium subframes.