Morgan Allen

Morgan Allen\'s artistic career began at an early age as a method to convey her complicated and sometimes radical emotions, and to help her cope with distressful, confusing, or complicated situations in her life. She still strives to express raw emotions in her work and believes the process of automatism is one of the best ways to achieve catharsis. Motifs of horses, canines, and birds are commonly used in her work to express salvation, anger or anxiety, and loath. Acrylic, ink, and pencil mediums are used to build layers of detail until a message is legibly scribed upon the canvas. The process is often messy, largely unplanned, but sometimes with a vision as vivid as the colors often used. Another branch of Morgan\'s work focuses on finer attention and much planning. The work may be done in any medium, though her illustrations are most commonly completed in watercolors. Morgan\'s career in illustration blossomed with the recently published children\'s book, \"Everyone Knows: One of the Many Adventures of Lily and the Fox\" authored by Karen Wesseling Morgan Allen has studied at Blinn College in Bryan, Texas and more recently at Texas A&M University in Corpus Christi, Texas. She has studied abroad in Spain, France, and Italy and enjoys travel, nature, and art history. She currently calls Chicago home, where she works as a freelance artist and custom framer.