James R. Morton
James Ralph Morton’s work is imbued with the exciting and reactive immediacy of capturing a person at a specific moment in time. Characterful faces form the main terrain in which colours are manoeuvred across the canvas, using a variety of tools and techniques. Winsome, thoughtful, melancholy, and focused; each face expresses the panoply of emotions available to humankind. These are thinking faces, painted with a respect and care that Morton has fostered through dedication to his own curiosity into human expressions. Often starting with a photo, the final image leaves the photo to become something else entirely, as Morton uses gestural marks to push and pull individual features into an even deeper truth.
Exhibitions
2024
North Street Gallery
Bristol
1st February - 30th April 2024
2023
Openwalls S4
Cass art gallery, Bristol
4th December 2023 - 6th January 2024
Small Works Show
Spring Gallery, Cheltenham
7th - 23rd December 2023
Start Art Fair, Saatchi Gallery
London
11th - 15th October 2023
Clio Art Fair
New York
18th - 21st May 2023
North Street Gallery, Bristol
5th February - 2nd May 2023
Forward Looking, Cass Art
Bristol
3rd - 16th January 2023
2022
Rip it up, Start Again
Bath
16th december- 18th december 2022
The Small Works Show, Spring Gallery
Cheltenham
1st -24th december 2022
Howl, Hours Space Gallery
Bristol
2nd - 24th September 2022
'One Hundred Times, The Crypt
Bristol
10th - 11th June 2022
2021
Affordable Art Fair
Online
9th April - 3rd May 2021
2020
Bristol Fine Arts
Bristol
10th May - 10th June 2020
Bocabar
Glastonbury
3rd February - 29th March 2020
Stables,
Bristol
4th - 28th February 2020
No.1 Harbourside
Bristol
2nd December - 2nd February 2019 - 2020
2019
Bocabar
Bristol
3rd September - 4th November 2019
Affordable Art Fair
London
9th - 12th may 2019
Untitled Underground, 508 Kings Road Gallery
London
25th April - 7th May 2019
Street Figures, 508 Kings Road Gallery
London
23rd March - 3rd April 2019
Affordable Art Fair
London
7th - 10th march 2019
Ropewalk
Bristol
1st February - 7th March 2019
2018
Resident Artists Group Show, 508 kings road gallery
London
December 2018
Roys People Art Fair
London
1st - 4th November 2018
Tobacco Factory
Bristol
31st October - 29th November 2018
Parallax Art Fair
London
20th - 22nd July 2018
2017
Complete Abstraction, 508 Kings Road gallery
London
4th - 18th July 2017
BV Studios Open Day
Bristol
21st - 23rd April 2017
New Portraits
Hackney, London
26th - 6th February 2017
2016
BV Studios Open Day
Bristol
22nd - 24th April 2016
2015
BV Studios Open Day
Bristol
24th - 26th April 2015
Bathed in Grey, Centre Space Gallery
Bristol
5th - 12th February 2015
2013
Its All 2 Much Gallery
Bristol
16th November 2012 - 6th January 2013
Pall Mall Deposit
London
1st December 2012 - 1st February 2013
2012
Tobacco Factory
Bristol
29th October - 12th November 2012
Its All 2 Much Gallery
Bristol
15th March - 30th April 2012
2011
Grounded
Bristol
1st - 30th June 2011
Southville Arts Trail
Bristol
19th - 20th May 2011
2010
Tobacco Factory
Bristol
2nd - 31st January 2010
2009
Tobacco Factory
Bristol
1st - 31st March 2009
2006
Degree Final Show
Bristol
1st - 7th July 2006
2004
Ilkley Fine Arts
Ilkley
1st May - 1st July 2004