Morwenna Morrison’s work explores the porous boundaries between past and present, myth and memory, psychological depth and painterly surface. Using collage effects, layering and juxtaposition, each canvas asks what endures, what is lost, and how we recognise ourselves across centuries and contexts.
Morrison’s recent paintings reach back into childhood, creating a thought-provoking melange of personal memory with universal experience; encouraging us to reflect on our individual mythologies. Strong lighting, long shadows and visual storytelling bring a sense of theatre, capturing the wonder and unease of growing up. A surreal element is lent to these compositions through the use of Lilliputian scale and strange juxtapositions conjuring up childhood imaginings. Each composition encourages us to reflect on potentially lost creativity and the fleeting magic of play.
Morrison is a BA (hons) graduate of the Exeter College of Art and Design’s Fine Art programme, who has exhibited extensively across the UK as both a solo artist and a contributor to group shows in the UK and abroad. She has been selected on several occasions for the RA summer show, the RWA annual open exhibition, and the Lynn Painter Stainers prize. Morrison lives and works in Cornwall, where she continues to expand her quietly powerful vocabulary of painterly narratives.