Eric william morris sketches
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William Morris
William Morris
William Morris by Frederick Hollyer, 1887William Morris
William Morris is best known as the 19th century's most celebrated designer, but he was also a driven polymath who spent much of his life fighting the consensus. A key figure in the Arts & Crafts Movement, Morris championed a principle of handmade production that didn't chime with the Victorian era's focus on industrial 'progress.'
Morris was born in Walthamstow, east London, in 1834. The financial success of his broker father gave Morris a privileged childhood in Woodford Hall (a country house in Essex), as well as an inheritance large enough to mean he would never need to earn an income. Time spent exploring local parkland, forest, and churches, and an enthusiasm for the stories of Walter Scott, helped Morris develop an early affinity with landscape, buildings and historical romance. He also had precociously strong opinions on design. On a family trip to London
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Eric William Morris
I am a fine artist, an eclectic image maker; a self-motivated idiosyncratic creator.
My interest in shapes, forms and images was piqued as quite a young child. Encouraged by my mother's interest in tasseography; I clearly saw the shapes, the forms, and the things that grew out of the tea leaves as I turned the cup. Layered ambiguity of image and meaning is a constant throughout much of my work. Reflections in glass, mirrors, light & shadow interplay, concave convex and geometric ambiguities and jigsaw puzzles are all sources for my work.
I work primarily, in oil, watercolour and wood and currently in 3D graphics digital media. I frequently use digital techniques when making my primary composition, with subsequent changes to the ongoing work, made digitally before being laid down in the paint.
My art education was at Flintshire School of Art, Fine Arts at Birmingham College of Art, and Postgraduate Fine Arts at Reading University.
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‘King Kong’s Leading Man: Broadway’s Eric William Morris Talks Growling Apes, Snarling Critics & Life As A Squip
When Broadway‘s King Kong opened earlier this month, critics did their best to one-up Beauty on how to kill a Beast. Big, hairy gloom might have settled over the cast following the show’s Nov. 8 opening, particularly after the publication of a New York Times pan that was unorthodox, if not downright bizarre. In place of a traditional review, Times critics Ben Brantley and Jesse Green published their back and forth conversation, taking turns lobbing brickbats. (“Ugh,” said Green; “aaaaaaaaargh,” responded Brantley)
Escaping the crossfire was Eric William Morris, the talented and appealing actor who plays Carl Denham, the 1930s-era New York movie director who heads off to Skull Island, along with unknown actress Ann Darrow (Christiani Pitts) in search of the legendary gorilla. Mo