Artist Profile - Hazel Morris
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Biography
Hazel was born in England but moved to Pembrokeshire as a child, where she has lived ever since. At seventeen she completed a foundation course in Carmarthen College of the Arts, before working in various jobs involving illustration, graphic design and teaching craft workshops. In 2000 Hazel returned to Education at Pembrokeshire College where she completed a two year National Diploma in Graphic Design. She was awarded Student of the Year and nominated for an adult learner’s award. Hazel followed this course with a Higher National Diploma in Fine Art at Carmarthen College of the Arts and then went on to achieve a first class Degree in Fine Art. While studying she was awarded first prize in the 2005, London, Boundary Figurative Art Prize. Since then she has take part in several group exhibitions including St. David’s Hall, Cardiff, the Queens Hall, Narberth and a solo show at Picton Castle, Pembrokeshire in 2005. A selection of Hazels work is currently on show at The Studio Gallery in St. David’s, Pembrokeshire. She teaches Art for Further Education for Pembrokeshire County Council, and also run workshops in mixed media for the Pembrokeshire Art Associates.
Artist Statement
Most of my paintings are made with oil paint on canvas. Having painted and drawn all of my life, mainly in watercolour, I have now found that oil painting allows me to be more expressive. I paint the felt emotion and certain aspects of the human predicament often relating to my own close and distant environment, therefore: impressions of personal dramas.
Through colour, composition, pattern and layers I explore fragmented memories, revealing them in a picture fairy tale.
Not necessarily a true representation of an event but more a recollection of thoughts after an event or era. Without words the images are open to individual interpretation, allowing readings on many levels and enticing the imagination to work for the viewer.