| 1942 |
Born Beckenham
Lives in Suffolk and Prague with his wife, the painter Diana Howard |
| 1957-62 |
Sutdied Beckenham School of Art |
| 1962-63 |
Ravensbourne College of Art |
| 1963-66 |
Royal Academy Schools |
| 1965-66 |
David Murray Landscape scholarship |
| 1974-76 |
Won an award from the Arts Council of Great Britain
Taught at Epsom School of Art, Westminster School,Suffolk College and Lowestoft College of Further Education |
| 1982 |
Winner of the Royal Academy of Arta "A Christmas Card Competition" |
| 1982 |
The BBC/TV Omnibus film "A week in the Country" directed by John Read devoted to John Morley |
| 1985 |
Winner of the British American Tobacco (export) Award, for a Christmas card design |
| 1985 |
Awarded the Herbet Baker Scholarship by the President and Council of the Royal Academy of Arts |
| 1990 |
Elected Brother of the Art Workers Guild |
| 1996 |
Invited to become a Member of the Society of Wood Engravers |
| 1964-2003 |
Royal Academy Summer exhibitions |
| 1967 |
Royal Academy Bicentenary Exhibition |
| 1973-74 |
New Grafton Gallery, London |
| 1977-2003 |
International Art Fairs, Basles, Cologne and London |
| 1979 |
Ellingham Mill Art Society (Sealink Competition-prize winner) |
| 1980 |
"Aspects of Bath" Festival Gallery, Bath |
| 1980 |
"From the Piccadilly Gallery", The Minories, Colchester |
| 1980 |
National Arts Collections Fund Exhibition, Tonbridge |
| 1981 |
The Brotherhood of Ruralists touring exhibition |
| 1981 |
"Fragments against Ruin" Arts Council touring exhibition |
| 1981-83 |
The Bath Festival, Contemporary Arts Fair |
| 1981 |
Tolly Cobbold, Eastern Arts, 3rd National Exhibition |
| 1982 |
"The Garden Exhibition" Ellingham Mill Art Society (Prize Winner) |
| 1983 |
Tolly Cobbold, Eastern Arts, 4th National Exhibition |
| 1985 |
"Teachers at the Royal Academy Schools - Rushbury to Greenham", New Grafton Gallery, London SW13 |
| 1985 |
"Christmas Card Exhibition", Odette Gilbert Gallery, London |
| 1985-86 |
"The Continuing Tradition" an exhibition by the Brotherhood of Ruralists on Biblical themes. David Paul Gallery, Chichester; Tunbridge Wells Art Gallery; Devizes Museum and Art Gallery; Fine Arts Society, Glasgow; Lambrays Gallery, Wadebridge, Cornwall; The Piccadilly Gallery, London |
| 1987 |
"The Glory of the Garden" Sotherby & Co., New Bond Street, in conjunction with the Royal Horticultural Society |
| 1987 |
"The Long Perspective" an exhibition of paintings of National Trust Properties commisioned by The National Trusts's Foundation of Art, Thos.Agnew & Sons Ltd., London |
| 1988 |
"Artists in National Parks" V & A Museum, Stafford Art Gallery, Huddersfield Art Gallery, Berwick Borough Museum, Hexham Abbey, York City Art Gallery, Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery |
| 1988 |
Kings Lynn Festival, Fermoy Gallery, 'Contemporary Paintings, a Personal Choice by Brinsley Ford' |
| 1989 |
"The Garden Show" Gainsborough's House, Sudbury |
| 1989 |
"The Secret Garden" Brotherhood of Ruralists, Festival of Garden, Bleddfa, Powys |
| 1990-99 |
Society of Wood Engravers (touring exhibitions) |
| 1990-91 |
"Alice" Brotherhood of Ruralists, Toquay, Powys, Plymouth, Oxford and Piccadilly Gallery, London |
| 1992 |
"Gardens - The Artist's View" Piccadilly Gallery, London |
| 1992 |
Fine Art Society Tribute to Edward Bawden Exhibition |
| 1994 |
Peter Greenham Memorial Appeal Exhibition, Christie's |
| 1995 |
Y Tabernacl Museum of Modern Art Wales Art Competition (Prizwinner) |
| 1996 |
Eastern Open Competition, Kings Lynn (Prizewinner) |
| 1997 |
50th Aldeburgh Festival Art Exhibition |
| 1999-2001 |
"The Discerning Eye", The Mall Galleries, London. (by invitation) |
| 2000 |
Painting at Charlecote, The National Trus, Charlecote Park, Warwick |
| 2001 |
"Painters and Sculptors of Eas Anglia", Messum's, London |
| 1981 |
"The Brotherhood of Ruralists" by Nicholas Usherwood |
| 1987 |
"Nine Poems" Eve Machin: Brotherhood of Ruralists |
| 1989 |
"The Secret Garden": Brotherhood of Ruralists |
| 1989 |
"Great Tew" Simon Rae: Brotherhood of Ruralists |
| 1989 |
Laelia Anceps (Orchid) "The Plantsman", Vol. II, part I |
| 1990 |
"A Broad Canvas: Art in East Anglia Since 1880" by Ian Collins |
| 1991 |
Art & Design "The Ruralists" edited by Christopher Martin |
| 1994 |
"Wood Engraving and the Woodcut in Britain c.1890-1990" by James Hamilton |
| 2002 |
"Hortus" John Morley, Painter - Plantsman by Ian Collins |
| 2003 |
"The Plantsman" New Series, Volume II. John Morley, Artist, by Ursula Buchan |