“In the winter months at Benton End when the days were shorter and the temperature dropped, Morris would paint indoors using his vast collection of plants and pots to compose imaginative arrangements which he would then translate onto canvas. The present work, painted in November 1969, is one such work and demonstrates how even in…
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Cedric Morris: Winter Flowers
“Each flower is imbued with a distinct personality, which is so well observed that horticulturalists can identify the exact species depicted by Morris in his flower paintings. In this still life, two tall Ornithogalum saundersiae tower over the composition, competing only with a few green iris seed pods. A dark blue Salvia and lighter purple…
Cedric, Sokolov, and Schubert
“Morris would grow his colourful subject matter in the garden at Pound Farm where he also had a studio, and one of his ex-students, Joan Warburton (1920–1996), later reminisced how ‘to go in there quietly when Cedric was painting the favourite of all his flowers, Irises, was a revelation.’ It was Morris’s incredibly close contact…
Cedric Morris: The Easter Bouquet (1934)
Cedric Morris (1889–1982) was a painter of the natural world and one of the most original British artists of the twentieth century. “It was Morris’s incredibly close contact with his subject and deep understanding of their design that enabled him to paint flowers as if they were people – with a mood and personality.” Lawrence…
Cedric Morris: May Flowering Irises No. 2 (1935)
“By 1935, when this work was painted, Morris’s fascination with irises had firmly taken hold. He established a studio in the garden where he would sit and paint his flower subjects for days on end, and one ex-student, Joan Warburton, poignantly reminisced how ‘to go in there quietly when Cedric was painting the favourite of…
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