Morgan Sinton-Hewitt

The language of my work arises from my effort to seek, perceive and act from the level of the essential: a realm of elemental interconnection or 'oneness' which runs through all life. 

I am a painter. Painting in itself is purposeful. I am myself, made in the brushwork. Embodiment is my first realm of effort. It is my daily life - in body-mind-heart and with life - for who I am, we are, becoming. It is effortful alchemy within the vast storehouse of life-consciousness; the interconnected realities of past-present-future with which we make real. I work for possibility, in ordinary life phenomena, dialogue and with nature. Through my direct and sensate perception, with oil colour which is life distilled, and also with clay and Earth-materials (silk, wood, weather) as forces of co-becoming. This is the work of en-visioning; a kind of evolutionary birthing or midwifing of my self and my present-future. The instant that something exists within myself, it is also alive within the world. I work for hope, which is the starting point, to reveals the power and healing of the feminine and the co-becoming of cosmic 'home' through the moment-to-moment. The unfolding story is one of moments in time, an ocean of moments, of life and death, which is marked by instances of 'emerging from the earth', or self-transformation and upholds the dignity of life, revealing a non-homogenous, non-dualist reality.

South African born, Morgan lived as a child in Johannesburg, Brussels, England and Scotland. This seeded an awareness that is not fixed or bound to and one land.

Morgan gained entry to The Byam Shaw School of Fine Art (foundation) and then The Slade School of Fine Art (BA Painting hons), discontinuing in the first year due to illness, and displacement. She continued to paint.

An 18 year Socially Engaged Arts Practice crosses the boundaries of education, health and therapeutic arts practice. Intuitive understanding of 'mirroring' while co-creating with children living with disability, led to a return to study (2012). Morgan gained a first class honours degree in Psychology from Roehampton University (focus in Critical Psychology and Cognitive Neuroscience) and was awarded the Martin Glachlan Prize (2015). Here she met SGI Nichiren Buddhism. A major shift led to experiential research into possibilities of every-day being and co-becoming for healing through permeable self-other boundaries: in moving dialogue with able/disabled bodies (2015-17), and sensory intra-action with earth-phenomena (2016- eg: wood, clay and weather). And now embraces the interconnectedness or oneness of cosmic-body and home-body.

Morgan has exhibited in London and UK, including at The National Theatre (2006), Orleans House Gallery (2016), Bermondsey Project Space (2022) and SGI-UK Taplow Court Grand Culture Centre (2016, 2019, 2024, 2025) where she is also (since 2023) part of the curatorial team.

Morgan's work has centred on emerging through and from a primordial experience of life and living through rooting in SGI Nichiren Buddhist practice. With living this philosophy, which acknowledges that all life permeates the life of the human being and the life of each human being permeates all things, she seeks to create possibility of/for a profound cosmic 'home'. This is simultaneously personal and interconnected. Home is another name for the body-land, where all things thrive together. Themes in the work include 'eternity in this moment', 'human flowers', 'the difficulty of sustaining life' and 'possible-emerging worlds'.