John harris artist biography
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Entry updated 27 February 2023.
John harris artist biography
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(1948- ) UK artist who received his formal training at Luton College of Art and then at Exeter University, where he began painting astronomical subjects. Graduating thence in 1970 he went to London, where he painted a few book covers before becoming a librarian.
After spending several years in India studying transcendental meditation, he returned to the UK and began painting full-time. His first major commission was to produce three paintings for Alien Landscapes (graph anth 1979) by Robert Holdstock and Malcolm Edwards.
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That book's publisher liked Harris's work enough to offer him a book contract for a collection of a series of paintings Harris had been doing depicting truly gigantic structures, a project Harris called Mass; the Victorian painter John Martin was widely seen as an influence on these works.
Unfortunately, the publisher folded before the project could be completed. Ten of the paintings fea