Public exhibition - Sailing Forth at Harbour Lights Southampton 2-20th May 2011

Thank you for visiting my website.

If you would like to purchase one of the artworks on show at the exhibition, please either email me at jamesandtony@ntlworld.com or phone 02380 360688.

All profits from the exhibition are going to the Evelina Children's Hospital which is part of Guy's and St Thomas's charity. If you'd like to read more about this excellent cause or to make a donation, go to http://www.gsttcharity.org.uk/fundraising/echappeal.html

If you would like to find out more about Tony Morgan and his life and loves go to http://tonyforever.wordpress.com/

and finally, I have a more current blog with regular updates and new artwork on line - visit weekly to see what's new at http://dreamsandink.wordpress.com/

If you are unable to come ot the exhibition and would still like to support the charity, perhaps you would like to consider buying a raffle ticket for the picture below - full details of the picture are at the dreamsandink website above - but in brief, if you want a ticket, tape a pound coin [or more if you're feeling generous !] to a card, put it in an envelope and send it to me in time for the draw on 20th May 2011. Good luck !

Thank you for your support - your generosity has helped a child in need.

x x James

Christmas 2009



 



In 1992, Joh Wiggle and the wheels of fire

A brandy glass, a hotel bathroom, a mobile phone...

This is my drawing for a design I did for AKA designs for an exhibition of Victorian Photography at the British Library. AKA are a very clever outfit with brilliant clever designers that create beautiful, professional designs for a range of clients, but I like to think I bring them a special kind of inky-ness.

This is my design drawing for the proscenium arch for 'Aladdin' at the Eden Court Theatre in Inverness. Great theatre and a brilliant production. We bought in the set and many of the costumes, though I designed the principles including several different frocks for Twanky, but the set needed a Chinese frame. I looted every Oriental cliche - dragons, kites, butterflies, swirly clouds - OK, not every cliche, but enough to make a beautiful and perhaps even classy surround for the wackiness that we put inside it.

This is a costume drawing a did in 199something for a sweet but trivial play called 'Lettice and Lovage' that I designed for the Cheltenham Everyman.

I love drawing the figure, and in particular the way in which a piece of clothing transforms the shape of the body. Here, a shabby kimono turns an ageing, tired woman into a blocky, strong Japanese samurai... -ish.

The drawing was done with my Granny's old ink pen and ink, then I added watercolour using the set my Mum had when she was a little girl in the early 50s.
In 2008, I came back to the image and developed it further using Photoshop.