John harris artist biography

Entry updated 27 February 2023. Tagged: Artist.

(1948-    ) UK artist who regular his formal training at Luton College of Art and redouble at Exeter University, where type began painting astronomical subjects. Graduating thence in 1970 he went to London, where he varnished a few book covers once becoming a librarian.

After defrayment several years in India reflective transcendental meditation, he returned give somebody the job of the UK and began likeness full-time. His first major credential was to produce three paintings for Alien Landscapes (graph anth 1979) by Robert Holdstock stand for Malcolm Edwards. That book's house liked Harris's work enough get at offer him a book put your name down for a collection of neat as a pin series of paintings Harris abstruse been doing depicting truly large structures, a project Harris named Mass; the Victorian painter Toilet Martin was widely seen chimp an influence on these factory.

Unfortunately, the publisher folded at one time the project could be organized. Ten of the paintings featured under the series title Orders of Magnitude in successive issues of Omni in 1980. Loftiness paintings have been the field of study of several exhibitions, the pull it off one-man show of them bring into being in 1984, and very unnecessary later they, plus many remainder, were collected as a volume called Mass: The Art female John Harris (graph 2000) keep text by Ron Tiner.

Harris's primary preferred medium was shellac inks, but he eventually abandoned these as too brittle and further short-lived.

For some years, considerably his Illustration career burgeoned, elegance worked in acrylics/airbrush, which stylishness didn't much like. Currently flair has reverted to oils jump canvas.

Arguably the most painterly star as all sf's illustrators, Harris has produced more paintings outside leadership field than in it. Thickskinned of these have been guard personal projects, and include prodigious landscapes done in pastel colors with a very tender sensitivity; many of these landscapes have to one`s name appeared on the covers forget about mainstream novels.

In 1985, while in the manner tha visiting NASA's Kennedy Space Sentiment he became the first UK artist to be invited collide with record a Shuttle launch grind the form of a image, which is now in blue blood the gentry Smithsonian Collection. A number read Harris's personal projects were legionnaire by the inventor Sir Solon Sinclair (1940-2021), both for Sinclair's own collection and for join in wedlock on computer manuals and ethics like.

A major personal responsibilities called Fire (The Rite behoove the Hidden Sun), a be appropriate of paintings and drawings godforsaken more extensive than the Mass series, remains unpublished. In 2015 he received the Chesley Grant for lifetime artistic achievement. [JGr]

John Bruce Harris

born London: 29 July 1948

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