Peg Morris: Casares

About the artist

Peg Morris is a painter and printmaker whose work is grounded in observation and drawing. While she explores various printmaking techniques, she specialises in etching, drawn to the technical challenges of tonal work and plate registration. Her practice is a direct response to the places she spends time in, with a focus on how nature reclaims abandoned spaces and the timeless quality of the landscape.

After thirty years in London, Morris moved to the Surrey Hills in 2021. This change of environment shifted her focus toward the ancient trees and local landscape of her new surroundings. Drawing plein air is essential to her process, allowing her to form an intimate memory of a location’s shapes, colours, and atmosphere. This was evident in her work on the Spanish village of Casares, where she utilised a two-plate etching process to capture the specific relationship between terracotta roofs and blue shadows.

Morris was elected a member of the Royal Society of British Artists in 2026 and is an Associate Member of the Society for Graphic Fine Art. A co-founder of Kingston Artists’ Open Studios, she managed the print studio at Kew Studio until 2025. Her work is held in the V&A archive and the Printmakers Council Archive at Scarborough Art Gallery. She has exhibited at the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, the Mall Galleries, and the Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair, and was awarded second prize at the RBSA Print Prize in 2024.