Art review
and flecked textures enhance light/dark corrugations and horizon/sky compositions.
The accompanying “Pre-studies” in pencil are modest and unadventurous records of the painted realisations that emerge, with all their art-style faultlessness.
Much in the style of Andrew Wyeth and Graheme Sydney, these scenes and still lifes celebrate those enduring emotions of nostalgia and sentiment for the romance of a rural past. Their limitless skies and breathless stillness capture, in painting, a tasteful-hole-beyond-outer-space-serenity and place them firmly on the gallery walls. For those who like such “true” art, Harris’s work will not be found wanting.
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Press, 7 December 1988, Page 16
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