Portraits

Maurice Morris of Margate

Portraits

 

This cheerful chap is Maurice Morris and he is considered something of a mascot in Margate. He worked various jobs at Dreamland in the 50’s through to the early 90’s. He used to share rooms with Marty Feldman and he was an extra in one or two sketches in the surreal pre-Python Marty Feldman Show.
Maurice is 85 and still going strong. This portrait is in a show called ‘Here’s Looking at You’ in the Front Room at the Beaney House of Knowledge in Canterbury from Saturday 14th of October till Sunday 19th of November 2017.  Acrylic on board 13″ x 15″ 2015.
I will publish some more info and snaps of Maurice soon.

 

 

 

The man himself

 

At Home

 

Pearly Maurice

 

Mini Maurice

 

Carnival Maurice

Maurice befriends a giant.

I would like to give credits to the people who took the photos Pearly Maurice, Mini Maurice, Carnival Maurice and Giant. On the other hand should you want any images removed please let me know. Contact details above.

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Kate Winslet

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A portrait of Kate Winslet from a promotional photograph. The angle of the head and shoulders were changed to achieve a more formal portrait. 9″x12″ Acrylic on smooth board 1998.

Grumpy Man

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I’m not sure who this man is. Over the years I’ve saved cuttings from magazines and newspapers, a habit from my illustrator years. As a result I have boxes of source material covering landscapes, portraits, various imagery. Oils on smooth board 9″ x 12″ 1998.

George VI

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This portrait of George VI was recently returned to me by the Real World Design Group in San Francisco. Nine illustrator/ artists were commissioned to produce portraits of famous people who also happened to stutter. The poster below was designed and researched by Roland Addad and his team at Real World for the National Stuttering Project in 1986-ish?. After all these years it’s a pleasure to be reminded of the great design culture that existed before computers.

 

Hawley Square

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Portrait Unknown #1

 

I don’t know who this is but it was done in the life drawing room at the art school in Hawley Square around 2001.

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Tony and Maggie

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Tony

 

A portrait of Tony who studied painting at the Slade in the 1960’s. Apparently he used to skive off and go home to play with his elaborate train set. Tony taught art in Canada and later in St Albans. He still collects train locomotives and rolling stock, very detailed die-cast models which are beautiful objects in themselves.

 

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Maggie used to pose for the Empire group back in the mid nineties. It was a small group that met in various peoples houses and there was never more than 8-10 people. Very relaxed, do your own thing. I miss that atmosphere where only discrete background music was played and it was all very relaxed. In 2001-2 we had a spell in the life drawing room at the old art college in Hawley Square. We rented the room and model and the group was un-supervised. For some reason the rules changed and the group moved venue a couple of times and ended up in a Baptist Church. The room was huge and faced south and the group grew. A changing of the guard brought in the idea of obtrusive music of the absurd variety. So these classes now are periodically crowded and new courses are too expensive. Also I’ve noticed that many students are showing up and you would think that the art schools would provide adequate drawing courses for them, they’re paying enough in tuition fees.