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Master of Colour Harry Bilson creates joyful, colourful paintings inspired by nature.
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celand is an idyllic place to create for some artists, with its striking landscape and quirky culture that lends to endless inspiration. Natural wonders include active volcanoes, gurgling geysers, and vast glaciers, while there seems to always be a colourful cast of characters among Iceland’s 360,000 inhabitants. Harry Bilson, an artist who was born in Reykjavík in 1948 to an Icelandic mother and British father, and grew up in London, currently calls Iceland home. Harry is a master of colour whether he’s capturing the dark subtleties of Icelandic life or the gentle power of the ‘Bower Bird Lady’. Nature is a theme never far from his paintings and prints as ‘Last Leaf Leaving’ painting features a family in a barren Icelandic forest with a gorgeous blue owl soaring above. The contrast of colors and brushwork is beautiful.
Lifelong painter
Harry began painting at an early age as he was a terribly creative child. His talent was
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