Cedric Morris Beyond the Garden Wall

The travel works of Cedric Morris are a body of paintings hitherto unexplored and yet they represent an extensive aspect of his output as an artist and observer of foreign cultures and landscapes. Due to extensive research carried out by Philip Mould & Company we have now been able to track Morris’ movements from 1908 to the last years before his death in 1982. Archival sources demonstrate just how prolific a traveller Morris really was having journeyed extensively throughout Algeria, Canada, The Canary Islands, France, Italy, Ireland, Malta, Mexico, Morocco, Portugal Spain, Tunisia and Turkey. During these trips abroad Morris documented the places he went in paint and botanise, the result of which is a body of work that is a testament to the importance that travel had upon the artist’s creative output.