Max morton

Max Morton (Liverpool, Jan. 4th 1942) is a British painter currently living and working in Belgium.

Max Morton is born on January 4, 1942 in Liverpool (United Kingdom) from a British father and a French mother called De Rosny. At two years of age he moves with his parents to South America, where he remains up to his adolescence. Already at very young age he becomes obsessed by painting art and becomes profound in the usage of the local techniques and materials that were already used by the Aztecs. He likes to work with NATURAL pigments and Old Colours, and creates his own personal colour palettes which immediately give his paintings a very personal light.

Via a professional detour as a language teacher, he ends up in Paris in May 1968 where he holds his first European exhibition. Exhibitions then succeed each other quickly in England, Morocco and Spain, where he also resides for a while. Ultimately, they led him to Belgium, where he settles down provisionally definitively in 1986.

His latest exhibitions took place in Mechelen (February 2006), Schaarbeek/Schaerbeek (open air exhibition June 2006) and in the old neighbourhood the Marolles in Brussels (May 2007).

His first art book appeared in early 2006 (Max - ISBN 9081036416) presenting an overview of his poems and paintings made between 1986 and 2006.

Presently he works and lives in the artist neighbourhood Schaarbeek (Schaerbeek) in Brussels.