About the Artist: Alan Morley (Painter)

General Secretary and Exhibition Secretary of the Cleveland Art Society (one of the oldest art societies in Britain), and co-manager of Gallery TS1, Alan Morley's paintings, prints and greetings cards are sold in galleries and shops in North Yorkshire, Teeside, Tyne and Wear, Northumberland and the Lake District. He has exhibited with the British society of Painters/International Guild of Artists, Christie-Wild International in Miami and Fort Lauderdale, Florida, Newcastle Gateshead Art Fair, the Fylingdales Group and the Mall Galleries in London. He has also exhibited with many mixed artist groups and has had joint shows with other individual artists, and has an impressive list of solo shows in his own name. Alan Morley's paintings are in public and private collections in New Zealand, Australia, Hong Kong, Mainland China, Italy, France, Canada, USA and the British Isles. His work is published in various art books and magazines.

Whilst still in art school he founded The Figurative Brotherhood with John Bartlett and together they fought against the stifling effects of Conceptualist and Minimalist art prevalent in Britain. They were representational painters in an art scene which tried to denigrate painting and traditional sculpture, and they championed painting at the difficult end, for visual art, of the 20th century.

In 1995 he joined the Cleveland Art Society, a provincial art group in his home region of North-East England, which had started life in the Victorian era as a sketching club. He helped shape and steer it as it entered and progressed into the 21st century - his involvement is ongoing.

The inventor of the "Big Parochial", an art approach which re-evaluates principals of established and recognised art styles.