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Landscape with flying bird, oil on canvas, 2000, 81 x 92 cm
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Drawings in Sketchbook 1942
Pencil various
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Hetty 1948 Oil on canvas 92 x 61 £3,500
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Still Life with Brown Jug 1965
Oil on canvas 76x61cm
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Landscape with Flying Bird 2000 Oil on canvas 81 x 92 £4,750
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GLYN MORGAN – in his own words
I have had two wonderful pieces of luck in my life. My father had grave doubts about my proposed career in Art: “You’re quite good with your hands”, he said hopefully. “You could be a mechanic.” However, when he found that I could become a teacher of Art, he gave his blessing to a course at Cardiff Art School, the Welsh having a great respect for education.
So at sixteen I had my first piece of luck – at Cardiff I was taught by Ceri Richards, a draughtsman of Picasso stature. To be taught drawing by him was an inspiring experience, and even now if I draw a hand it tries very hard to become a Ceri Richards hand.
Later, drawn by the lure of London, I went to Camberwell. There were no Picassos there (John Minton was the only teacher I respected) and I hated it. It will always be associated in my mind with the smell of boiled cabbage drenched in bicarbonate of soda.
My second piece of luck was meeting Cedric Morris in Pontypridd in 1943.
His summer school in Hadleigh was an enchanted haven for me, and I worked there whenever possible for the next 38 years until Cedric’s death. In my opinion he was one of the great colourists of the 20th century and I learned an enormous amount from him. I also learned that serious artists today are in the position of a resistance movement, up against the forces of what Cedric called “the fashion boys” and the obscenity that is the Turner Prize.
Morris’s baleful eye also fell on the critics. He saw them as parasites and, faithful follower that I was, I did too. I once saw a photo of three eminent art critics seated at a pub table and my gut reaction was “just one hand grenade and I’ve got all three”. Since then I have mellowed somewhat and I have got to know a critic who lives near me. I have found him very knowledgeable, hard working and definitely to be spared execution.
I also find that I agree with almost everything Brian Sewell writes, though
I had to disagree with his estimation of Cedric Morris: “Whimsical, feeble.” Whimsical perhaps, but never feeble. If only the majority of critics would follow Sewell’s example and tear someone to pieces from time to time it would I think make for a healthier art world.
Personally I welcome criticism of my work. Even someone with no knowledge of painting can sometimes spot a flaw that I have not seen. You can stare at a picture for too long and miss some glaring fault. It is difficult, of course, if the whole picture is one hopeless mistake! So, painters, critics and public, don’t
be too polite. To the barricades!
Published: Easel Words The Jackdaw magazine July/August 2014.
Glyn Morgan, in his own words
Glyn Morgan born 16th July, 1926 Pontypridd – died Hadleigh, Suffolk 26th June, 2015.
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GLYN MORGAN |
SOLO EXHIBITIONS SINCE 1969
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Richard Demarco Gallery,
Edinburghn
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Gardner Arts Centre, University
of Sussex
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Gilbert-Parr Gallery, London
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Gilbert-Parr Gallery, London
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The Minories, Colchester
(Retrospective)
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Archway Gallery, Houston,
Texas
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Taliesin Arts Centre, University of
Swansea
(Retrospective)
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Quay Gallery, Sudbury,
Suffolk
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Chappel Galleries, Essex:
Portraits of Gaia
and Other Paintings
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Chappel Galleries, Essex:
Master and Pupil,
Cedric Morris and Glyn Morgan
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Simon Carter Gallery, Woodbridge:
Glyn
Morgan. A Fifty Year Retrospective.
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Chappel Galleries, Essex: “The
Green Man”,
70th birthday celebration,
Oriel Llundain, London, Glyn Morgan – Fifty
Years
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Glyn Morgan – Fifty
Years, Rhondda
Heritage Park
Y Tabernacl (Museum of Modern Art, Wales)
Retrospective
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Chappel Galleries, Essex:
The Observant
Eye: Botanical and Other Watercolours
Brecknock Museum & Gallery, Brecon
(Retrospective).
John Russell Gallery, Ipswich
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Chappel Galleries, Essex:
75th Anniversary
Exhibition The Song of the Earth.
Selected Paintings, Martin Tinney Galery,
Cardiff.
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National Library of Wales,
Aberystwyth:
Retrospective
Chappel Galleries, Essex:
80th Birthday Exhibition
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Chappel Galleries, Essex:
Landscape Images
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Duncan Campbell Fine Art, London
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Andrew D’Arcy Fine Art
Gallery 47, Sudbury
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Chappel Galleries, Essex 'Behind the Landscape'
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Chappel Galleries, Essex ‘Canu’n iach fy ngwlad’ 16th July to 7th August Memorial Exhibition
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GROUP
EXHIBITIONS (excluding local exhibitions) |
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Contemporary Welsh Painting
and
Sculpture, National Museum of Wales,
Cardiff
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1962
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Leicester Galleries, London
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1968 |
Canaletto
Gallery, London |
1969 |
Recording
Wales (Welsh Arts Council) |
1970 |
John
Whibley Gallery, London |
1975 |
Alwin
Gallery, London |
1976 |
Gilbert-Parr
Gallery, London
Oriel, Cardiff (Welsh Arts Council) |
1978 |
The
Oxford Gallery |
1986 |
Invited
Artists Exhibition, Oriel, Cardiff
(Welsh Arts Council) |
1987 |
Royal Academy, London |
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Royal Academy, London
Manchester Academy of Fine Art, Open
Exhibition
Royal Horticultural Society, London
Society of Botanical Artists, London
Royal Society of Marine Artists, London
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1989 |
Society of
Botanical Artists, London
Four Painters and a Sculptor from Benton
End, Bury St. Edmunds Art Gallery
Art Expo, New York
Royal Horticultural Society |
1990 |
The Broad Horizon,
Agnews, London
(National Trust)
Society of Botanical Artists, London |
1991 |
Society
of Botanical Artists, London |
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Woburn Festival, High Wycombe
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1995 |
Welsh
Contemporaries, Oriel Llundain,
London |
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Colchester Art Society – Fifty
Years,
Chappel Galleries, Essex
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Aldeburgh Festival
Society of Botanical Artists, London
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Fifty Years of the Welsh
Group, National
Gallery, London
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Norwich Castle Museum and
Art Gallery
touring to National Museum and Gallery,
Cardiff: “Cedric Morris and Lett
Haines;
Teaching, Art and Life; with David Carr,
Lucian Freud, Maggi Hambling, Lucy
Harwood, Frances Hodgkins, Glyn Morgan
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Sally Hunter, Medici Gallery, London
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COLLECTIONS
Derbyshire, Monmouthshire, Oxford and
West Riding
Education Committees, Auckland and Brisbane
City
Art Galleries, Contemporary Art Society for
Wales,
Arts Council for Wales, the Crane Kalman Gallery,
the
Wertheim Collection, Ipswich Museum and Art
Gallery,
Newport Museum and Art Gallery, Brecon Museum
and Art Gallery, the National Museum of Wales,
Cardiff, Glynn Vivian Art Gallery Swansea,
and
National Library of Wales (Gifts of the Arts
Council for
Wales); University of Essex: ‘Portrait
of Ronald Blythe’
2002 and private collections in Britain, France,
Italy,
Germany, China and the U.S.A. |
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1955
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Cheltenham Hotel mural commission
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Goldsmiths’ Company
Fellowship to work
and study in Crete |
1972 |
Lecturing
during summer at Aegina Art
Centre, Greece |
1985 |
Organised
and presented “The Benton End
Circle”, an exhibition of more than 40
years’
work by students of Cedric Morris and
Lett-Haines at Bury St. Edmunds Art
Gallery |
1988-89 |
Member
of the Society of Botanical Artists |
2002 |
Cedric
Morris Anniversary Lecture, Glynn
Vivian Museum, Swansea |
2002,
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Lectures
on Cedric Morris at various venues,
including Norwich Castle and the National
Museum of Wales, Cardiff |
2006 |
Publication: “Glyn Morgan at Eighty” by David Buckman published by Sansom Company Ltd |
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