Elizabeth Morris Prints

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I trained as a painter at the Southern College of Art, Bournemouth, at Goldsmith's and the Central School, and only much later discovered etching at Morley College in South London.

Living in Greenwich I taught art locally, ran a printmaking workshop in my studio, and was instrumental in helping to found the Greenwich Printmakers, a printmakers co-operative with it's own gallery, where I continued to be a member for many years. Living now on Mersea Island I belong to the Gainsborough's House Print Workshop and was for ten years a member of the East Anglian based 12PM (Twelve Printmakers)

I am a printmaker who enjoys islands and the sea and my work has come to reflect two particular island environments. They are Mersea Island, close to the Blackwater estuary, where I live, and where I work in my printmaking studio, and Heir Island, a small island in West Cork where for years I have spent much of the summer, sailing, walking and drawing. Sea and sand patterns, shapes of stones, textures, imprints in mud and tracks of birds, fish, boats, gulls - and most recently sea myths and biblical stories with sea references, are all used as starting points in my prints.

In recent years I have exhibited at the Royal Academy and at the 'Originals' Contemporary Print show at the Mall Galleries. Also at the Barbican in the Contemporary Print exhibitions1996-2000, and at the Affordable Art show, Battersea. In '99 I was awarded the Coley and Tiley prize by the Royal Birmingham Society of Artists.