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Avril Morris

Studied ceramics and sculpture at Leeds College of Art and taught at various schools in Lincolnshire whilst working with her husband David in their ceramics studio workshop.

Eventually, her interest in ceramics was overtaken by a longstanding desire to paint, which she has now been doing full time since her retirement from teaching.She has exhibited widely in this country and with the American Watercolor Society in New York. She was awarded the Graham Prize at the Holmfirth Art Exhibition, the Nicholson & Co. Prize with the Lincolnshire Artists’ Society and the Lincoln Hospitals Purchase Prize with the same Society.

With the American Watercolor Society, she was awarded the Walser S. Greathouse Medal and was included in the travelling show.

She was a co–founder of the Louth Art Exhibition and was involved with all the exhibitions in Louth Town Hall for the 12 years that it raised money for the Macmillan Cancer Support charity.

David Morris

Studied at Leeds College of Art and taught in Hull before moving to Lincolnshire. He was Lecturer in Ceramics at Grimsby School of Art, a Full Member of the Craftsman Potters Association and ran a pottery studio until he retired from teaching.

His paintings have been exhibited at the Catto Gallery in London, with the R.I. at the Mall Galleries and with the R.W.S. at Bankside, as well as in many provincial galleries and exhibitions. He has shown in the Laing Art Competition and in the Singer and Friedlander/Sunday Times Watercolour Competition.

He has been awarded prizes from the Royal Watercolour Society, the Holmfirth Art Exhibition and the Patchings Exhibition (The Great Art Award 2006 and 2007 and the Winsor and Newton Award 2008). He was a co–founder of the Louth Art Exhibition and he is a Member of the Lincolnshire Artists’ Society.