Peg Morris is an artist who loves to explore different media and processes; she draws, paints, makes etchings, mezzotints, collagraphs, monotypes, lithographs and artist’s books.  Her degree was in painting and although she did a little printmaking whilst at art college she really discovered etching in the 1990s when she started attending classes at Putney School of Art.  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.  She is fortunate to now have a fully equipped etching studio at home and is starting to run workshops there.

A member of the Southbank Printmakers Gallery cooperative, the Printmakers Council committee and co-founder of KAOS (Kingston Artists’ Open Studios), Peg works at Kew Studio where she is the Print Studio Manager and also teaches etching. Her work is held in the V&A archive and the Printmakers Council Archive at the Scarborough Art Gallery as well as in private collections across the UK and abroad.  She has exhibited widely including the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, the Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair, Bankside Gallery, at the Mall Galleries in London with the RBA, RI, SGFA and NEAC.  Peg’s etching, ‘Colekitchen Lane’, was awarded second prize at the Royal Birmingham Society of Artists Print Exhibition 2024.  Her two-plate etching ‘A River Runs Through It’ was the winning entry in the Pressing Matters Magazine orange and blue print challenge.

Isolation, decay, abandonment, rust, erosion and changing light conditions which transform our perception of the landscape, cityscape or interior spaces and provide inspiration. Peg’s work is rooted in observation and drawing underpins all the images she makes. The places depicted in her work, whether interior or exterior, are quiet and contemplative; the composition leading the viewer through the space.