During that time, he made ends meet doing such odd jobs as sign painting. He studied life drawing at the School of Visual Arts in New York City. Morris has worked with the well-known portrait artist, Alex Fournier, and shared a studio with New York illustrator, Kenneth Duey. He also did book jackets for Houghton Mifflin in the same era. They are abstract to define fantasy, which is a process of travel.
Pure color defines simplicity.
He spent time sailing the Bahamas and Caribbean and has lived in England and New York. Although most of Morris' previous work has been realistic, his recent work merges abstraction with realism. I enjoy abstraction in realism. He provokes himself to work out all of the details to represent reality, solving all light and perspective problems to give his work a dimension beyond mere composition. Morris has also exhibited at the famous International Book and Print Fair in Frankfurt, Germany.