Now open at Musée Marmottan Monet, Paris, 'The Empire of Sleep'. Evelyn De Morgan's 'Night and Sleep' is on loan to the exhibition. www.marmottan.fr/en/

It looks like we are in for a couple of days of windy weather. Boreas and the Fallen Leaves, Evelyn De Morgan, c.1910-1914 www.demorgan.org.uk/collection/b...

#TilesOnTuesday Reading about the accelerating decline in wild bird species in the UK made us think of this fellow. Multi-Lustre Dodo Tile by William De Morgan (1898) The dodo is an extinct flightless bird from Mauritius and was popularised by Lewis Carol who featured it in 'Alice in Wonderland'.

If you are in Brittany this autumn why not drop into Pont-Aven Museum to see the remarkable Witches exhibition youtu.be/95tLVJogO0E?...

We're delighted to lend some of William De Morgan's ceramics to Blackburn Museum and Art Gallery for the wonderful exhibition 'The Nature of Gothic' (on until mid-December) www.demorgan.org.uk/exhibitions/... Including some Ferocious Creatures ...

Looking forward to seeing some of William De Morgan's #FerociousCreatures ceramics in the show!

Looking forward to seeing some of William De Morgan's #FerociousCreatures ceramics in the show!

#TilesOnTuesday Looking at the forecast for Tuesday in the UK "lovely weather for ducks" just about sums it up. So here we are! William De Morgan, Fantastic Ducks tile (1907) Lustre-Glazed Earthenware

To protect them from too much light exposure we’re changing some of Evelyn De Morgan’s drawings in our Guildhall Art Gallery exhibition at the beginning of August. Next week is your last change to see them before they go back in store for some time.

Our Summer Journal for De Morgan Friends is out now.

OK we're spoiling you now. Tileophiles can score more here: www.demorgan.org.uk/discover/the... #DeMorganCollection

It’s International Tile Day (yes, it’s a thing) and what better way to celebrate than with some of William De Morgan’s fabulous tiles #DeMorganCollection

Behind the scenes at Sorcieres exhibition install at Pont Aven Museum, opening next month!

🐰 Hopping into Easter with William De Morgan’s energetic rabbit/hare designs. 🐇 In these examples, mostly from our collection, they are springing away from a curious blue bear, eye to eye with a Sphinx, being pounced upon by an eagle and leading a three rabbit race.

🖼️ Looking for a truly unique gift for the art lover in your life? 🎨 ❤️Adopt a De Morgan artwork! Choose your or your loved one’s favourite Evelyn artwork or William ceramic in our collection to sponsor and support the work we do. www.demorgan.org.uk/support/adopt/

Come on in! It’s the first day of our exhibition with the Guildhall Art Gallery, London, celebrating ‘Evelyn De Morgan, The Modern Painter of Victorian London’. Learn about Evelyn’s groundbreaking career as a female artist in the patriarchal Victorian art world in London.

‘Evelyn De Morgan, The Modern Painter in Victorian London’ opens tomorrow, Friday, at the Guildhall Art Gallery. Did you know Evelyn first exhibited her work at the Guildhall in 1897. Open till 4 January 2026, will you be visiting?

The De Morgan Museum at Cannon Hall, Barnsley, reopens this Saturday. Displaying some of the treasures in our collection, including this unique sculpture of Medusa by Evelyn. Are you planning on visiting?

‘… to meet women who are not playing at art’. Happy Birthday to polymath, May Morris, designer of wallpaper, jewellery, textiles, stained glass and other arts and crafts. She was also an embroiderer, author, editor, lecturer, artist, feminist and socialist and a close friend of Evelyn and William.

Couples and Art Collectives: for this #MuseumMonday we are showcasing our partnership with the Watts Gallery, Surrey, where an exhibition of the foundation’s art and ceramics can be seen. Have you visited yet? …

#SunshineSaturday with this Ruby and Gold Lustreware dish. Decorated with a Dahlia plant in a pot flanked with two bees. Dahlias were a very popular flower in the Victoria era conveying devotion, love, beauty, and dignity. With bees representing hard work, diligence, and productivity.

What better to way to show your support for #WomensHistoryMonth than by becoming a Friend of the De Morgan Foundation, #FriendsFriday. Join our Friends Scheme today for just £30 a year and support our charity. Join now here- ⁠ www.demorgan.org.uk/support/frie...

‘The day is fresh-washed and fair, and there is a smell of tulips and narcissus in the air.‘ Extract from ‘Spring’ by Amy Lowell (1874 – 1925). Happy first day of Spring with a sprouting of tulips on this ruby lustre-ware dish by William De Morgan.

#MuseumMonday with Queen’s House, Greenwich. Did you know we have a display of some of the Foundation’s nautical and aquatic themed ceramics on loan to this incredible collection. Including William De Morgan’s Triton Charger and Moonlight Lustre Galleon Charger.

Pre-Raphaelite Pink. Entering our ‘Pink Pony Club’ Chappell Roan era- she feels very Pre-Raphaelite coded. 🖼️ ‘Rosa Triplex’, Rossetti, 1874. 🖼️ ‘Night and Sleep’, Evelyn De Morgan, 1878, @demorganfoundation.bsky.social. 🖼️ Detail from ‘The Enchanted Garden’, John William Waterhouse, 1917.

#FloraFriday. Flora, Evelyn De Morgan’s masterpiece, has returned to our partner venue, Wightwick Manor, @nationaltrust.bsky.social. It’s now on display, with a preparatory sketch in the De Morgan Malthouse Gallery. Have you visited the Manor in Wolverhampton yet? #preraphaelite #evelyndemorgan

On Saturday, for International Women’s Day, we spent the day at Wolverhampton Art Gallery honouring the closing of the Evelyn De Morgan exhibition, ‘Painted Dreams’. With a series of events- from talks, a dance performance, craft activities, among other things. Did you visit?

#MuseumMonday with the Auckland Project, Faith Museum, Bishop Auckland. Did you know one of the Foundation’s paintings S.O.S. by Evelyn De Morgan is on loan to the museum. Painted as a reaction to the First World it shows the conflict between good and evil. …

#SketchSunday in Florence, with Evelyn De Morgan’s sketch of Botticelli’s ‘Madonna of the Magnificat’. Imagine Evelyn sitting in front of this Renaissance masterpiece in the Uffizi, admiring it, studying it intensely- the lines, the colour, the shadows, the life, and creating her own version.

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 Happy St David’s day, Dydd Gŵyl Dewi Sant Hapus, to all our Welsh friends. We had to choose this celebratory, serenading red dragon, a symbol of Wales, to honour the country today. 🌼 In this endearing depiction, the dragon looks as if he is singing or roaring or roaring with laughter. 💛

#ToDoListThursdays creating condition reports and taking highly detailed photos of our artworks, here ‘In Memoriam’, ready for them to go on display in an upcoming exhibition.

Welcome to #whimsicalwednesday with this merry dodo depiction, one of many whimsical designs produced by De Morgan which were perennially popular in the Victorian period. Typical application of these tiles would be in a nursery bathroom. …

#SketchSunday. An Angel sharing light and hope with an oil lamp, basking the dark paper in wide spreading, energetic, white rays of light. ⁠ Created with white chalk on dark paper. 🌟 www.demorgan.org.uk/collection/s...

A sneak peak of one of the gallery spaces at The De Morgan Museum at Cannon Hall, Barnsley, closed until 5th April while extensive conservation is taking place of the mansion. Are you looking forward to returning? Or visiting for the first time when we reopen in a few months?

‘Hello, sun in my face. Hello you who made the morning and spread it over the fields...Watch, now, how I start the day in happiness, in kindness.’ Mary Oliver, #MentalHealthMonday We hope you are blooming and thriving this Monday morning, like this sunshine yellow primrose tile from 1897. …

Join us at Wolverhampton Art Gallery, Saturday 8 March, International Women’s Day, for the closing event of ‘Painted Dreams: The Art of Evelyn De Morgan’ exhibition which re-imagines an exhibition of work by Evelyn De Morgan at Wolverhampton Art Gallery in 1907.

New exhibition launching at the Guildhall Art Gallery, London, soon! One of the most remarkable artists of her generation, Evelyn De Morgan, is returning to Guildhall Art Gallery this April in an exhibition that premieres two newly restored artworks. Find out more: bit.ly/3QftfhI

Flora serenading you with flowers for Valentine’s Day! We hope you have a day filled with love. Currently on show at Wolverhampton Art Gallery. www.demorgan.org.uk/collection/f...

💗 Happy Galentines Day with Evelyn’s ‘Daugthers of the Mist’. 💗 Inspired by this passage from Hans Christian Andersen’s fairytale, The Little Mermaid: ‘The sun rose above the waves, and his warm rays fell on the cold foam of the little mermaid, …

#WaterWednesday with ‘Port After Stormy Seas’. Have you seen it in Evelyn’s exhibition at Wolverhampton Art Gallery? The title is a quote from 16th century poet Spenser’s The Fairie Queen- ‘Sleep after toyle, port after stormy seas, Ease after Warre, death after life doe greatly please.’

Waking ourselves up at the start of the week with a tuneful trumpeter. Did you know it wasn’t just Evelyn De Morgan that mastered the art of drapery in her designs. This beautiful tile panel was created by her husband William De Morgan, and is currently on show at Wightwick Manor, NT.

🌈 Rainbows have had a variety of meanings, from representing salvation from God, hope and recently as a symbol of pride for the LGBTQ+ community. 🏳️‍🌈 Today, we are sharing this striking rainbow image by Evelyn De Morgan, to honour #LGBTQHistoryMonth in the UK this February.

🐍 Happy Chinese New Year! 🧧 Wishing everyone a ssssensational start to the Year of the Snake! 🎊 The Year of the Snake symbolizes rebirth, regeneration, and the pursuit of love and happiness, though snakes hold both feared and revered status in Chinese culture.🏮✨ 🖼️ Snake tile, William De Morgan

The familiar, raven-haired beauty who featured in Pre-Raphaelite paintings (most memorably Rossetti), is still recognisable in this painting by De Morgan, even when her hair has turned silver. This is a lovely thread about the De Morgan portrait of Jane Morris.

Today we are spotlighting fellow creative and friend of Evelyn De Morgan, Jane Morris, on the anniversary of her death in 1914. Evelyn De Morgan rarely painted portraits and so this picture demonstrates the strong bond between the two women.

#StudySaturday, with this preliminary sketch for ‘The Cadence of Autumn’. The De Morgan Foundation has over 800 drawings. Studies such as this help us understand Evelyn De Morgan’s process in creating her oil compositions, and show her incredible skill to render emotion, flesh and hair in pastel.

⚓️ We hope your weekend is plain sailing. ⚓️ 🐠 With waves like the scales of a giant fish, alongside the tiny details of the fishermen, the ship and the sails; all show the inventiveness and craftsmanship of De Morgan pieces. 🎨 Moonlight Lustre Galleon Charger. #artandcrafts #lustreware

❤️ #Booktok fantasy winged boyfriend, Evelyn De Morgan edition. 🏛️ Mercury is the Roman messenger to the gods. Depicted as a young, muscular athlete, he carries a caduceus (rod with snakes which possesses magical powers over sleeping and dreams) and wears winged sandals and petasus (winged helmet).