ArtMoorHouse is proud to present
RICHARD HARRISON 6th September 2019 -10th October 2019 ArtMoorHouse, Moor House building 120 London Wall EC2Y5ET London, UK
THE FIRE DOWN BELOW (DETAIL), 2018, Oil on linen 213.5 x 183 cm
Richard Harrison The critic Brian Sewell was an early champion of Harrison’s work. He recognised its committed, insistent nature and described the artist as a “visionary prophet” and his paintings as “big, bold, beautiful and threatening”.
Richard Harrison was born in 1954 to an unmarried mother and was adopted at 20 days old by a comfortable uppermiddle class mercantile family f rom Liverpool. He was educated at Aysgarth School, a prep school in North Yorkshire, and at Harrow School, which Harrison describes as one of England's "f inest prisons for adolescent boys”. He read Medieval History at Trinity College, Cambridge, where
he completed his degree in 1976. After several years of wandering and drift, which culminated in a three month spell in a drug re-habilitation clinic in the summer of 1984, he went on to complete BA and MA degrees in Painting at Chelsea School of Art in 1987 and 1988 respectively.
His f irst solo show in 1990 at The Berkeley Square Gallery in London’s Mayfair district was greeted with great acclaim by Brian Sewell, who declared in London’s Evening Standard newspaper that “Harrison’s pictures are wholly contemporary and could be of no other time than ours, and yet, I suspect, such old masters as Goya, Rembrandt and Delacroix might recognise him as in some sense their heir”.
Many solo shows in England and abroad have followed, and his monumental crucif ixion triptych “At The End ... A Beginning” hangs in Liverpool Anglican Cathedral.
Harrison began as an abstract painter with a convincing interest in texture, not only of paint, but even of the canvas on which he painted, which he f requently burned or charred; in these, though they represented nothing, there was a mysterious link with the Rococo paintings of the eighteenth century. He then moved on through landscape and the f igure to biblical and mythical narratives that were common among the European painters f rom the High Renaissance to the High Olympus of Vic torian ar t . Temptation and the constant struggle between good and
THERE WAS WINTER IN MY HEART, 2018, Oil, acrylic on linen, 160 x 180 cm
evil are themes that Harrison has returned to in recent f igurative works, as is the other given in life, that one day death will be waiting around the corner.
In his book “Nothing Wasted : The Paintings of Richard Harrison”, published in 2010, Brian Sewell concluded with, “We should look at him not as a painter comfortably settled in middle age, but as a young painter with at least as much ahead of him as in his past, a young painter of u n d i m i n i s h i n g t u r b u l e n t e n q u i r y, b u t w i t h a l l t h e advantages of practice, maturity, education and broad experience”.
On Show at ArtMoorHouse
Richard Harrison
PULSAR, 2011 Oil on canvas 99 x 89 cm £ 6,750
Richard Harrison
TERMINUS III, 2014 Oil, acrylic, collage on canvas on plywood panel 61 x 56 cm £ 4,250
Richard Harrison
FROM THE DEEP, 2014 Oil, acrylic on linen 180 x 150 cm £ 12,500
Richard Harrison
TRIMLINE, 2014 Oil and acrylic on linen 122 x 152.5 cm £ 9,750
Richard Harrison
GORGE, 2014 Oil and acrylic on canvas on plywood panel 38.5 x 41 cm £ 3,250
Richard Harrison
THE SUMMIT, 2014 Oil on canvas on plywood panel 61 x 56 cm £ 4,250
Richard Harrison
HELGAFEL, 2014 Oil and acrylic on linen 71 x 122 cm £ 6,750
Richard Harrison
IN A PURPLE PATCH, 2015 Oil on canvas 183 x 152.5 cm £ 12,500
Richard Harrison
FROZEN EARTH, 2015 Oil and acrylic on linen 71 x 122 cm £ 6,750
Richard Harrison
MISTY MOUNTAIN, 2015 Oil on linen 152.5 x 183 cm £ 12,500
Richard Harrison
FOG, 2017 Oil on linen 101.5 x 91.5 cm ÂŁ 6,750
Richard Harrison
OVER THE HORIZON, 2017 Oil on canvas 100 x 90 cm £ 6,750
Richard Harrison
IF THE WORLD SHOUD END,2017 Oil and acrylic on linen 180 x 150 cm £ 12,500
Richard Harrison
BEFORE THE WINTER, 2017 Oil on canvas 53 x 59 cm £ 4,250
Richard Harrison
HENGE, 2017 Oil, collage on linen 91.5 x 101.5 cm ÂŁ 6,750
Richard Harrison
MOORLAND, 2017 Oil, collage on linen 48 x 54 cm £ 3,750
Richard Harrison
BACK TO THE GARDEN, 2018 Oil, collage on canvas 127 x 102 cm £ 7,500
Richard Harrison
THE FIRE DOWN BELOW, 2018 Oil on linen 213.5 x 183 cm £ 15,000
Richard Harrison
LATITUDE, 2019 Oil on canvas on wood panel 15 x 15 cm £ 850
Richard Harrison
THERE WAS WINTER IN MY HEART, 2019 Oil, acrylic on linen 160 x 180 cm £ 12,500
Richard Harrison
BREAKING WAVE, 2011 Oil, acrylic, pastel, charcoal on canvas 90 x 100 cm £ 6,750
Richard Harrison
GREEN DAY, 2019 Oil on canvas on wood panel 15 x 15 cm £ 850
Richard Harrison
LAVA FLOW, 2015 Oil and acrylic on canvas on plywood panel 42 x 60 cm £ 3,250
Richard Harrison
MORAINE II, 2019 Oil on canvas on wood panel 15 x 15 cm £ 850
Richard Harrison
THE SUN FADING LIGHT, 2017 Oil on linen 91.5 x 101.5 cm £ 6,750
Richard Harrison
CLEFT, 2014 Oil on canvas on plywood 38.5 x 41 cm £ 3,240
Richard Harrison
Available for viewing upon request
Richard Harrison
TRIASSIC (Tryptic), 2010 Oil and acrylic on canvas 183 x 319 cm £ 22,500
Richard Harrison
THE EDGE AND BEYOND, 2014 Oil and collage on canvas on hardboard panel 61 x 48 cm £ 3,750
Richard Harrison
LEFT WITH AN ECHO, 2017 Oil on linen 122 x 72 cm £ 6,750
Richard Harrison
PLUME, 2017 Oil on linen 101.5 x 91.5 cm £ 6,750
Richard Harrison
CLOUDS CLOSING IN, 2017 Oil on canvas 90 x 100 cm £ 6,750
Richard Harrison
IT’S BEEN A LONG LONG TIME, 2019 Oil on linen 183 x 213.5 cm £ 15,000
Richard Harrison
VEILS OF MIST, 2019 Oil and collage on linen 150 x 200 cm £ 15,000
Richard Harrison
b. 1954, Liverpool, England
EDUCATION :
1973-76 Trinity College, Cambridge
BA Hons. Degree in History
1981-83 London College of Furniture
Diploma in Furniture Design
1984-87 Chelsea School of Art, London
BA Hons. Degree in Fine Art
1987-88 Chelsea School of Art, London
MA Degree in Painting
SOLO EXHIBITIONS :
2018 2016 2015 2013 London 2011 2011 2011 2010 2008 2006 2003 2002 London 1997 1993 1990
“Over The Horizon” at Pontone Gallery, London Albemarle Gallery, London CB1 Gallery Guest Space, Los Angeles, USA “Sex, Lust, Death and The Maiden”, Albemarle Gallery, Dea Orh Gallery, Prague, Czech Republic “Nothing Wasted”, at Jamb, London with Albemarle Gallery and Chenshia Museum, Wuhan, China Chenshia Museum, Wuhan, China Albemarle Gallery, London Albemarle Gallery, London Albemarle Gallery, London Albemarle Gallery, London Albemarle Gallery, London 2001 Fun Factory Gallery, Gallery 27, London Jill George Gallery, London Berkeley Square Gallery, London
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS :
Associated Newspapers Ltd., London Priory Church of St. Bartholomew the Great, London Liverpool Anglican Cathedral Unex Group Chenshia Museum, Wuhan, China Orb Estates, London Philip Wilson Fine Art Publishing, London Mirabaud Holdings, London Farhat Museum, Beirut, Lebanon Southampton City Gallery
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