About the Artist and the Art

Beverly Morris is a New Orleans ceramic artist who was born in New York City and raised in New Hampshire, Florida and Mexico. She has a Political Science degree from Tulane University and worked for 15 years at The Times-Picayune as an award winning copywriter and creative director.

Under the tutelage of her stepmother, Jan Dolan-Morris, a well-known portrait and landscape artist, she studied oil and acrylic painting.

At Tulane she studied painting with Pat Trivigno. In 1991, she began to work with clay as a medium and quickly developed a preference for hand built ceramics over the wheel as a method of creating work.

She prefers the rough, organic beauty of coil and slab-built pieces with their imperfect soul and unmistakable imprint of the artist. Textures are an important aspect of her vessels and she often carves and notches each piece thousands of times before it is complete. The textures are often inspired by the natural world.

She has explored various African and Japanese themes in her solo shows at d.o.c.s. gallery and elsewhere and seeks to connect the viewer with his or her own humanity.

She has been commissioned by the Saks Fifth Avenues of New Orleans, LA, Boston, MA, Greenwich, CT, West Palm Beach, FL, and by numerous individuals to create unique ceramic pieces for fine homes.

She joined Mid-City Studios in 1996.

Morris also participated in three, 1,500-mile walks across Europe, led by her father, a professor and writer, and one 600 mile walk across England and Ireland.