With a degree in zoology from Birmingham University, Desmond Morris moved to Oxford University in 1951 to study for a doctorate in animal behaviour. For the following 20 years Morris devoted himself to his zoological career and became a bestselling author and television presenter. Although he stopped exhibiting during this period, he always maintained a studio and never ceased painting.
In 1974 he began exhibiting again in London and, since then, has held 49 solo exhibitions in England, France, Holland, Belgium, Spain, Portugal and the USA, including six retrospectives. Morris’ ‘double-life’, as a zoologist by day and painter of dreamlike images by night, was explored in a documentary which aired in 2017 on BBC4.
Having recently celebrated his 91st birthday, Desmond Morris continues to produce art works and to exhibit.
