Paul Morrison
Paul Morrison, born 1966 in Liverpool, UK, lives and works in London and Sheffield. Morrison’s striking graphic-style compositions, inspired by botanical imagery from both popular culture and classical sources, achieve their impact through the deliberate absence of color. This omission invites viewers to project their own associations onto the canvas. His works often play with scale and perspective, creating landscapes that oscillate between the familiar and the surreal, blurring the line between nature and artifice.
Paul Morrison Editions
Lonicera
2009
From Forty Are Better Than One
10-part leporello, screenprint on Gmund Colors 50 paper, 32 x 250 cm (12½ x 98½ in). Edition: 75, signed and numbered.
For this edition, Paul Morrison created a dense, panoramic landscape. The title, which is the Latin name for honeysuckle, signals the artist’s ongoing interest in flora as both scientific subject and symbolic motif. Here, oversized flowers and detailed foliage appear layered against a traditional cottage scene, rendered in Morrison’s signature high-contrast black and white. The visual field is compressed and intricate, evoking a surreal collision of scales and timescapes – where domestic idyll and wild overgrowth coexist.
EUR 1,200
Masdevallia
2007
From Wall Works
Wall painting in black acrylic paint; size variable, according to the height of the wall. Limited to 15 installations, with a signed and numbered certificate.
This remarkable wall work edition by Paul Morrison features the dramatically enlarged silhouette of a fern, rendered in bold black against a stark white wall. The oversized botanical form dominates the room, transforming the architectural space into a surreal, hyper-natural landscape. Characteristic of Morrison’s approach, the work manipulates scale and contrast to disrupt conventional relationships between figure and ground, nature and artifice. The title – taken from a genus of orchids – adds a further layer of botanical specificity, underscoring the artist’s ongoing engagement with plant imagery as both symbol and structure.
EUR 15,000
Hilum
2006
From Door Cycle
Polyurethane, CNC-milled, lacquered white, on a wood door panel. Size: 196 x 88 x 4.8 cm (77 x 34½ x 2 in). Edition: 15, signed and numbered on separate label.
In this monochromatic relief edition, Paul Morrison translates his characteristic botanical imagery into a sculptural language. Rendered entirely in white, the intricate composition features wild and ornamental plant forms – thistles, seed pods, and flowering heads – subtly raised from the surface, inviting a sensory engagement beyond the purely visual. The absence of color directs attention to form, texture, and depth, allowing light and shadow to animate the surface as the viewer moves around the work. Morrison’s interplay of precision and distortion remains central here: scale is manipulated, and familiar flora takes on an unfamiliar presence, occupying a space between scientific illustration, historical landscape, and imagined environment. The result is a work that feels both delicate and monumental, minimal in palette yet rich in detail – one that underscores Morrison’s ongoing exploration of the psychological and symbolic dimensions of landscape.
EUR 12,000
from: Black Dahlias
2004
Screenprints on rag paper, 73.3 x 98.5 cm each (28¾ x 38¾ in). Edition of 45, each print signed.
These prints by Paul Morrison are part of his 2004 portfolio Black Dahlias, a striking exploration of landscape and botanical imagery rendered entirely in black and white. Morrison fuses references from scientific illustration, art history, and popular culture to create surreal, dreamlike compositions where scale and space are deliberately distorted. Giant ferns, dandelions, and stylized trees dominate the foreground, while delicate silhouettes and bold contrasts evoke a theatrical, almost cinematic atmosphere. The absence of color heightens the graphic tension, encouraging viewers to project their own associations onto these enigmatic, symbol-laden scenes.
Each EUR 1,500
