“Museum Closet” (24″ x 15.5″ Mixed media collage, 2014

“Dear Emma…” was the name of an exhibit of prints inspired by postcards that were sent to my great-aunt Emma Morgan in the 1910’s. The exhibit was held at the Red Ochre Gallery, in St. John’s, Newfoundland in February, 2014. This show was made up of large (22″ x 15″) monoprints, and six editions of 10 of smaller half page prints. Some of the half page prints are still available. You can contact me directly via email if you are interested. I do ship unframed work.

These collages were created during my residency at St. Micheal’s Printshop in January 2013. But the project started years ago with a challenge from my mom, author Bernice Morgan. On a cardboard box that came from my dad’s family house in Coley’s Point, Conception Bay North, my mom wrote: “This is valuable stuff—from Coleys Pt—some day it will make a book or an art exhibit.” The “valuable stuff” was the collection of 100-year-old postcards, received by twenty-something Emma Morgan.

My cousin, author Trudy Morgan-Cole, also took up the challenge and wrote a historical novel inspired by the postcards. “That Forgetful Shore” was published by Breakwater Books in 2012 and won the Newfoundland and Labrador Heritage and History Award (www.thatforgetfulshore.com).