MORRIS, Timothy (1941 – 1990)
Kameeldoring, Eastern Transvaal
1982
watercolour on paper
31 x 51 cm
BIOGRAPHY
An accomplished painter, Timothy Morris worked in the Bernard Leach stoneware pottery tradition. He was born in Windsor in the United Kingdom and studied at the Brighton College of Art, the St Martin’s School of Art, London University and the Central School of Arts and Crafts in London.
In 1965, he moved to South Africa. With Helen Martin (b. 1942) he started a studio in Johannesburg, which lasted only two years. In 1967, he moved to Larsens Farm near Muldersdrift, where he opened a studio.
A one-man exhibition at the Goodman Gallery, Johannesburg, in 1969 marked a turning-point in his career, and he built a permanent studio at Muldersdrif. Until 1976, he produced stoneware sculpture that shows the influence of his training at the Central School, but he then changed to unglazed stoneware. In the 1980s, he continued to work in stoneware and also experimented with fine forms in porcelain, drawing his motifs from nature.
He held exhibitions in every major city in South Africa and several international exhibitions in Los Angeles, Italy, Germany, Holland and Namibia. He was a founder member of Association of Potters of Southern Africa and the founder of the Crocodile River Arts and Crafts Ramble in Johannesburg.