Jason Taylor Morgan

Welcome...

I came to painting late, and came to it through abstraction. My first work I called visual poetry—brief glimpses of captured beauty, painted small. From there I moved to larger surfaces and deeper excursions into expressive abstraction, exploring the balance between chaos and stillness, forms floating and forms in motion.

Sometimes I paint gently, like a poet painting music. Or visual emotions. Or acrylic longings and dreams. Sometimes it arrives as an explosion of complex color and movement, where the unseen world either careens or flows into the subconscious.

The paintings emerge in the moment, guided by intuition and spontaneous decision, and are allowed to find their own form and meaning. My hope is to open your imagination—to touch your inner eye, your senses, your emotions—and to invite you to let go of literal thought, to feel something more organically understood, and perhaps stir something you weren't expecting.

I am a Resident Artist and Gallery Director Emeritus at the Cloverdale Arts Alliance Gallery in Cloverdale, California, and have shown in twenty-two exhibitions. I am also the author of seven novels, published under my own imprint, 9 Swans Literary. Painting came out of a lifelong literary imagination and became a language of its own.

The work is arranged in ten galleries, earliest to most recent. With the exception of the wood panels in Gallery Nine, everything is acrylic on 140 lb watercolor paper. I invite you to visit Gallery 10, my new, ongoing work for 2026.