About Don Morgan

I enjoy looking at the natural and the built world, and the way light comes to us in forms, patterns, reflections and textures.  I always liked to draw, and as a teen I discovered that I could find art already created and capture it with a camera.  And I do like playing with technology, so many years were spent with cameras, working in darkrooms and now with computer screens.    I hope that the images that come from the looking show my love for this world - its light, colors, and essential forms and states.

On this website you can also see galleries for my design and building work - furniture, built-ins, lighting, interior design and outdoor landscaping. My analog and digital art have a home in the Art gallery, and blog posts and news, shows, etc. appear in the Blog pages.

My photographic seeing usually results in prints with abstract forms and colors, often from findings on sidewalks, yards, building walls, junk piles and in the woods.  In my ongoing “Street Art” series I collect patterns of tar repairs on streets, colors on curbs, and the odd objects found there.  The “Rorschach Series” is an ongoing distillation of forms with few or no halftones – what do they look like to you?  The “Paintingraphs” are larger abstractions from nature and the built world that are minimally processed in Lightroom to remove texture and detail so the painterly quality shows. Galleries devoted to “Travel,” “Food,” and “Around the House” tell other stories.

I have often said that I wouldn’t mind if there was no film [or digital card] in the camera… I just enjoy walking around, looking, and cameras provide opportunities for contemplation of the world and permission to do it everywhere without getting into trouble. I’ve been a longtime student and practitioner of the Buddhist dharma, and I resonate strongly with Eastern and Western “minimalist” art.  I think I’ve naturally gravitated to the perspective of that great champion of minimalism, John Cage, who would often give his Zen critique of artists’ work - “There is not enough nothing in it…”