Twilight 1 60 x 83cm Paper size
Claire Morris-Wright’s beautifully composed prints reflect her local landscape. The prints are reminiscent of the rural landscapes that she continually draws inspiration from.
As well as a practicing artist, Morris-Wright is a founding member of the Leicester Print Workshop. Claire regularly uses her Ipad as a drawing tool, fusing 21st Century IT technology with old-school tools and technology such as a printing-press.
She regularly runs print workshops, working with a wide demographic, including courses for asylum seekers and new refugees.
In her own words
Scraperboards Spring + Summer. Autumn 23 x 31cm Dry point etching multi plate on A1 black paper.
Can you please introduce yourself and tell us what makes you want to create?
I am one of the founding members of the Knighton Lane Group artist’s studios and Leicester Print Workshop. I am a practicing artist and print maker who uses a variety of media to explore the relationship with landscape, open spaces and the evanescence of a moment.
I have a drive to create that won’t switch off! I am constantly inspired by my surroundings be it weather, colour horizon or light.
What influences have driven your work and why?
I am influenced by many artists, but most particularly boys like Ravilious, Lanyon, Nicolson, Hitchens, Hodgkin, Moore, Sutherland, Piper and Beuys to name a few. The girls I revere are Frink, Bourgeois, Nicolson, Hepworth, Barns-Graham, Vellacott, and Rae, again to name a few! I adore the writings of Bruce Chatwin, Roger Deakin and Robert Mcfarlain, who inspire imagery and a true love of our planet.
Mapping Mothers Day. Lino and stencil on tissue within a small pocket book.
My drive comes from within, an excitement that is tangible, a need to represent a range of emotional responses to a place in a moment in time. This can be explored through print, paint, sketch or textile.
Can you please describe the steps involved in creating your works, in particular the digital images that you produce?
I sketch and draw in little sketchbooks that are constantly with me. I walk and draw making weather and colour notes. On winter nights I draw on my Ipad using the ‘Brushes Programme’.
Starting with my sketchbook drawings I move ideas around the screen, layering and overworking. It is a liberating process that allows play over weeks. For me it is another media to explore, manipulate and push.
Bluebells. Lino with cut out recessed window of bluebells on double imperial paper.
Do your works share a common theme or do they tend to be individual pieces?
The common theme is the land, turf, the horizon and my surroundings.
I have a true hippy style love of the earth and our wonderful planet and want to capture a range of emotions about places that move me. I make work in batches that have themes of seasons or places.
I have worked in two dimensions for a while due to family and work commitments.
‘Within’ Ipad drawing, 2014
What concepts are you currently exploring and what will you embark on next?
I don’t have a concept as such but my next project is to return to some stone lithography I started last winter.
Claire Morris-Wright, British born, regularly exhibits throughout the UK.
All images courtesy of Claire Morris-Wright | www.clairemorris-wright.com
‘Field of vision’ Ipad drawing, 2014
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