14 may 1927 hatched out in the 1926 general strike.Born when strike ended. at 6 Millman Stree.Pillgently Newport. Gwent Parents were in rooms
About the Artist
Painting In My Own Style Of Times Past.
Based on my own memories. Always had that desire to paint.
A self-taught artist.
In the category of painters dubbed naive and primitive.
I take no offence at this label.
Also engaged in creation of welding sculpture.
I should have pursued this sculptural part of my oeuvre more viguriously
Limited Few Patrons Own my sculpture pieces.
MY taking up the tools of brush and paint-So late in life.
I was at at that age when I no longer obtained any great pleasure from motor bikes. Motor cars.pleasure boats.
With Age The Desires of I want. Became extint in my mind and body.
Sport of drinking from a damp pint glass declined.
My engagement in the active sports of water ski-in and sub aqua diving.
I sought other less demanding interests. Moreover with reflection. I suppose we all look to that vocation or craft or longing to create- Something we would have desired to have been able to achieve.
Priorities and the overiding factor of the need to work to and support ones family.
Which deprives many from doing what they would desire to do.
Talented or not- Money and a silver spoon do play its part in life. I was lucky. I did it my way.
I took a giant leap for mankind.
I went back to a cave man primitive mentality similar in time to the period of cave painting at Altimira Spain.
Within the limits of poor painting tools and little knowledge of the craft of the arts.
Poorly educated and forced by events of those times had to work at the early age of thirteen.
I had little choice. Much later in life but to teach myself to paint.
I gave up the constant going on the puggled pani. Stayed within the confines of my home and became a recluse and frugal monk. Saving my pennies to buy brushes paint and canvas.
I Spent a period of time flaudering and daubing paint about and in a bit of a labyrinth about art.
The chocolate box brigade of art Society Slick and how good I am- sometimes had an influence.
In some way of turning me away from that untutored innocence of the naive style of painting.
It was fun
Interesting and I let it take me where it wanted to go.
Like being in the innocence of ones childhood days.
Like those childhood days times past
When so young their first introduction to the learning process.
Tactfully when grown elders would not ridicule the untrained child.
The child's gallant effort of painting of big nose of daddy or a distorted body.
It was Relaxing by not being Shackled to the perfection disciplines of the trained artist.
I trust this period I did produce maybe?. Something of value for posterity.
I regret I have now lost that innocence that I once had.We move on in our lives with the learning process breaking new ground.
But Sadly the leaning process destroys that naive innocence
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Air Raid Over Maesglas
Acrylic on canvas
My Father
The Last Card
circa1982 Acrylic on canvas 30x20
The Golden Dawn
More information and Books on Crowley can be seen from the short cut to "Mandrake of Oxford Icon bottom.
I have not sufficient space here to inform you of this interesting Character.
Also published are a Book on Sickert and the Ripper Crimes. By mandrake of Oxford a very good read. And also Police photographs of the crimes.
I might add the book by the Trance artist Roseleen Norton the witch of Kings Cross. Artists interested in automatic drawing and occult you should read this book.
Author Jean Overton Fuller is no stranger to controversy.
Here is a good solution to the Jack Ripper crimes.
Jean Fuller the daughter of Indian army officer Capt. J.H. Fuller and the artist Violet Overton Fuller.
Jean Overton Fuller had a brief career on the professional stage and knew Victor Neuburg and his circle 1935-6.
During the World War Two she was an examiner in postal Censorship. She later made researches into the fate of British agents in France under German Occupation.
Also an Artist who portrays her beloved cats in paint.
It does make one think what does go on in high places.
When one steps over the line and does not fit in with establishment Philosophy.
Look at past sacrifices think of the persons names that had an early mysterious death.
You may start with Diana and Martin L.King
Or Alan Turing the father of our computers.
who
Helped to break the German enigma code.
It is Possible his help in breaking this code saved this country?.
Coventry was one of the sacrifices. Coventry all out defence was ignored to be bombed by the German Air force to protect the fact that we were breaking the German code.
To intercept the Raid would have tipped off the German Defence of our breaking that code.
The other Mysteries in the death of this Alan Turing a poisoned apple or accident. His left wing views.
Made known to a visiting lady colleague.
Maybe another sacrifice to keep the Knowledge in the West.
Thatcher put up a fight for this Country.
What powers have these people in the so-called Market to remove by stealth a British Prime minister?
What positions of reward for their knives in her back?.
Did a greater power seek to remove a British Leader to Clear away for the Common Market?.
The mother of one of the members of the crew on the Nuclear Submarine.
That sank the Argentinean Belgrano.
A mysterious death? The Kennedy's Saga And many more.
I had a thought about the whistle blower in the Brussels Parliament.
He went up the road. And nothing changed the gravy train still runs.
A further thought.
And you must not have any these with the present power group.
What with moggies going missing in the thin air and Cattle being slaughtered like Belsen for an early election.
And clean air lot gone walk about in the smoke of the fires of burning animals while the animal rights go blind from concern of foxes getting smoked.
And looks to see if they have got hair growing in the palm of their hand from pulling their wire because they were told if they did not stop they would go blind.
And can't say a word In case one puts ones foot in ones mouth.
That straw should be used to bed down the sheep giving birth to their lamb's out in the cold muddy and wet hills.
Instead straw is used and will have you for playing the race card at the races.
And visitors won't come on tour because someone saw the Tele and thought they were in the wrong country and it was not bonfire night.
when a load of sheep counted themselves out and voted one in and followed.
I wonder if Hitler did die in the bunker.
Or did the wall come down to put the West in chaos?
Join the common market and no more wars.
And then along came Kosover then we had Afghanistan finishing off with a Iraq weapon when its was in someone's trousers and waiting for an appointment in the Brussels gravy dip in.
MP And I love my Country and He's got a baldhead. Can't vote for him.
I went west to make a pattern of a Common market for I said are you all right and I meant myself.
And I tucked up the Magi. So we could import fresh foot rot to make the farmers thin out from cowshit slinging over the petrol prices.
So we could give to those that like to have a bit on the side and let it all go and share the kids out at Christmas. Have your scrotum adzes off marry you mate and retire early with piles.
And Howlers of its public tax payers money and we want to get rid of them so I can have a job like Stalin to try another seventy years to see if Socialism based on envy works.
While I have a nice tax payers MP salary hand out.
I Take the lime light off myself by Hypocrisy I berate one big attraction and big earner for this countries tourism the Royal family. Castigate the Royal family-working Youngsters.
While I myself earn more on the side from sitting in a house of cards with no power but it pays to talk.-- CRAZE But! since this event? We have had FEW WARS Have we learnt anything from the past involment in those country's ?. No ! many have lost thier lives . Have we not seen that party politics in some countrys do not work they want to do thier own thing. Someone should look at history Starting Romans; Americans; Boars; Russians the list is endless. Keep your nose out you sit on your backside tell others to do it type.Wanting an easy ride on the backs of the paying public.
Apples
Acrylic on board
Bombed
Oil on canvas
The Empire Theatre
Acrylic on board 9 x 15cms
Ben the Bull Terrier
Acrylic on canvas
Education and biography
University of this life but full of care. we have no time to stand and stare. so there!
Future shows
VICTOR MORGAN 1996....
Exhibitions.............
LLanarth Vicarage flowers Festival circa 1975.
1979 2 June ---24 June --- Staged one artist exhibition at Caldicot Castle Tower Gallery.
Between 1977 and 1992 I have exhibited selected work with other artists From the Monmouthshire art society at Newport Museum and art Gallery.
1983 my Paddle Steamer painting was selected for the cover of local book publication: Newport: Town On the Usk. The same work later being sold to a Paris collector.
1983 Painting on cover, Town on Usk. Also Exhibited at the Sherman Theatre foyer Cardiff.
1986 One artist exhibition at LLANTARNAM Grange arts Centre with Welsh Arts Council support. sculpture and paintings.
Rejection came in 1984--- my work rejected at Royal West of England Royal Academy and also 1988 National Eisteddfod.
1977---1988 Exhibited at Jeffrey's Hall Raglan with combined artist.
1985----- Combined artist exhibition at Sophia Gardens.
1982----- combined Five artist exhibition at Tredegar House, and also submitted other paintings at the same time in the flower show.
1988------Oxford Central Library. Magical Art Exhibition. combined Twelve artist from over Great Britain.
1992-----Ebbw Vale Garden Festival.
Royal National Eisteddfod.Aberystwyth.
Royal Welsh Agricultural Show.And painting exhibited at the pavilion S/4/C Cardiff thereafter for six months.
1993------ Selected Saint David's Hall 10th Anniversary open exhibition Cardiff. ----------- Although I am not a good or prolific Painter. Many of my Paintings are in private collections. Britain--Paris- America. None in Public collections.
Painting in book. . Welsh Internationalist Planet.
issue Planet 104. 1994.
Painting Crowley "Last Card". acrylic on canvas 30"x20 1994 Illustration in book.Morus Revue, Solstitium Miemis, Czechoslovak.
Painting of Pleasure Steamer "Britannia". Oil on canvas.24"x36". Illustrated cover of Local book of Newport by Kath Nash "Newport Town on the Usk".
Many artistic people have encouraged me collecting my work along with many working men and a woman..
Though I fear some Art Centre Establishment seems to favour not the Hairy backed boilermaker steel worker jumped up come artist.
An encouragement to paint is that Dr Ivor Davies Art historian and painter also collected my work..
Also Atan in Paris a notable collection of Atan Poulev Suresnes Paris France
Also Roy Powell for his interest help spur me on to paint.
My lack of smoothness of technical skill or slickness.
One critic once remarked is more than replaced by some imagination and a vocabulary of subject matter.
Which I remember from an exhibition of Edward Hopper.If I may be bold enough to try to quote the words of Edward Hopper.
What a painter once was he always will be. His subject matter remains the same
Time and fashion alters him little at all.
In my words I muddle along in the same old way
----Victor Morgan.
1993
Further Thoughts to this that I feel I have wasted some of my time over the last five plus years .
Mainly caught up with the fashionable craze("do it your self") Working on my home. Bricklaying. Name It I've tried it. Or did it. Anything else I dreamt about it. Or messed up so no one else can do it
Once more I look to the future, one must move on.
Why do we think that we have all the time in world and behave as if we alone are immortal. Victor Morgan 1997.
When around us the many friends drop out from life.
The year of this entry is now 1999
My progress over the past years has been in a doldrums or quandary of not knowing which way to go.
Six of my images of paintings on the Axis Leeds Metropolitan University Web Site. Hosting the new Internet outlet to expose one's art work.
I have taught myself to use the computer and writing up text of history of my paintings spent a time at transferring my work from slides to computer disks.
Scanning and touching up old Photographs from my service time in India.
Composed painting of this period on the North Frontier India.