Background
Morgan was born in Petworth, her father having moved there to work at the ironmongers Austens, of which he later became the proprietor. He was the son of a Welsh-born military farrier.
Morgan was born in Petworth, her father having moved there to work at the ironmongers Austens, of which he later became the proprietor. He was the son of a Welsh-born military farrier.
Following school in Petworth and at Brighton and Hove High School, Morgan studied at Goldsmiths" College of Art in London, from 1926. From 1930 she attended the Grosvenor School of Modern Art in Pimlico where she was taught and strongly influenced by the principal, Iain Macnab.
She lived in town of Petworth, West Sussex. The Grosvenor School was a progressive art school, and the championing of wood engraving and linocuts fitted with its democratic approach to the arts