Adrian Morris, Works on Paper and Paintings A Retrospective

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Although a dedicated painter all his life, he was reserved in showing his work but over the years he did exhibit at a number of leading London galleries, including the Hayward Annual in 1978 where sixteen of his works were shown. He sketched ideas for paintings at every opportunity, espically when away from his studio, teaching. Dominating themes, usually inspired y photographs, were the earth and its vulnerability to both natural and man-made disasters and the effect upon its people. he was inspired in the sixties by the NASA space programme and the views of distant, Barren terrain viewed from a spacecraft hatch. Although figures - such as astronauts, refugees, wounded soldiers and poor rural workers - feature strongly in sketches, they seldom survive into the finished works, painted in oil on gessoed panels, which are paired dwon to the minimum 'every square inch minutely considered'.