Simon Morriss is an artist based in the Cotswolds. He has exhibited with the Royal Institute of Painters in Watercolour, in the Royal Watercolour Society Contemporary Watercolour Exhibition and at the Royal West of England Academy. In 2012, he was elected an associate member of the Society of Graphic Fine Art and promoted to full membership in 2016.
After a career in Architecture, he returned to study gaining a Foundation Degree in Creative Practice from the University of the West of England and, in 2014, an MA in Fine Art from Birmingham Institute of Art and Design.
Selected Exhibitions
2024
Nature in Art - Wallsworth Hall, Gloucester
2023
Society of Graphic Fine Art - Mall Galleries, London
2022
Society of Graphic Fine Art - Mall Galleries, London
2021
Society of Graphic Fine Art - 'Drawing Together Online'
Society of Graphic Fine Art - Mall Galleries, London
Corinium Museum, Cirencester – solo exhibition
2019
Society of Graphic Fine Art - RBSA Birmingham
Society of Graphic Fine Art - Bankside Gallery, London
Chorleys, Prinknash Abbey Park, Gloucestershire – with Fosseway Artists
Lower Slaughter Village Hall, Gloucestershire – with Fosseway Artists
2018
Stroud Subscription Rooms, Stroud - with Fosseway Artists
Dean Heritage Centre, Soudley, Gloucestershire - solo exhibition
Nature in Art, Gloucester – with Fosseway Artists
Society of Graphic Fine Art - Menier Gallery, Southwark, London
2017
Gloucester Cathedral – with Fosseway Artists
Society of Graphic Fine Art, Bankside Gallery, London
John Bowen Gallery, Malmesbury – solo exhibition
2016
Gloucester Cathedral – with Fosseway Artists
Nature in Art, Gloucester – with Fosseway Artists
Society of Graphic Fine Art, Menier Gallery, Southwark, London
2015
Bingham Gallery, Cirencester – with Fosseway Artists
Museum in the Park, Stroud – ‘Tracing Absence’ – solo exhibition
Society of Graphic Fine Art, Bankside Gallery, London
John Bowen Gallery, Malmesbury – solo exhibition
2014
Nature in Art, Gloucester – with Fosseway Artists
Society of Graphic Fine Art, Menier Gallery, Southwark, London
Birmingham Institute of Art and Design – ‘Set Your Chatters To Hum’
Bingham Gallery, Cirencester – with Fosseway Artists
2013
Corinium Museum, Cirencester – solo exhibition
Birmingham Institute of Art and Design – ‘Who Punched the Unicorn?’
Gloucester Cathedral – ‘Presentation at the Temple'
Society of Graphic Fine Art - Menier Gallery, Southwark, London
Society of Graphic Fine Art - RK Burt Gallery, Southwark – ‘Paperworks’
Royal West of England Academy, Bristol‘ - Drawn 2013’,
Royal Watercolour Society Contemporary Watercolour Exhibition, Bankside Gallery, London
2012
Society of Graphic Fine Art, Menier Gallery, Southwark, London
Royal Watercolour Society Contemporary Watercolour Exhibition, Bankside Gallery, London
Little Buckland Gallery, Broadway – with Fosseway Artists