Raymond Morris
Raymond Morris was born in London in 1951. He started painting in his early thirties when he moved into his council flat (housing assigned by the local government), and since then every space has been covered. There are stacks of paintings on canvas in the hallways, and all wall spaces and crevices are covered with artworks.
He has called his home “the most magical place.” Ever since he witnessed a sprit emerge from one of his paintings, he has used his art to express the spiritual forces he feels have exerted a great influence on his daily life. Morris sees art as something miraculous and as a form of mediation, whereby the mind disengages and allows the spirit to take over. He also believes that art is not necessarily therapeutic and that it can cause harm and drive one to insanity or even death, as in the painter Vincent Van Gogh.
Morris can often be found drawing on anything he has to hand, so alongside paper he has drawn and painted on kitchen cupboards and scraps of cardboard. Some works even comprise scores of small poems constructed on sticks alongside toy animals along the top edge of his paintings.
EXHIBITION HIGHLIGHTS
2018 Recent Acquisitions Exhibition, MNMU Museum in Jagodina, Belgrade
2018 Artist’s Colony Exhibition, Belgrade
2014 Raw Vision 25 Year Anniversary Show, Halle Saint Pierre, Paris
2011 Group exhibition, Willesden Library, London
2001 Obsessive Visions, England & Co, London
2001 Outlaws, Diorama Arts, London
