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John Harris (artist)
British artist and illustrator (born 1948)
For other people with the same name, see John Harris (disambiguation).
John Harris (born 29 July 1948)[1] is a British artist and illustrator, known for working in the science fiction genre. His paintings have been used on book covers for many authors, including Orson Scott Card,[2]Arthur C. Clarke, Isaac Asimov, Frederik Pohl, Ben Bova, Wilbur Smith, Jack Vance, Ann Leckie, and John Scalzi.[3] His work has covered many genres and although he made his name in the science-fiction genres, he is now exploring a new realm, the imaginative realism of aerial landscapes.[citation needed]
Biography
Born on 29 July 1948 in London, England,[1] Harris began painting aged 14 and entered Luton College of Art at the age of 16. After completing a foundation course, he entered Exeter College of Art in 1967 to study painting. Graduating in 1970[1] he travelled and studied transcendental meditation, an increasing influence on his works. On his return to Engl
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John Harris Jr. (artist)
English artist
For other people named John Harris, see John Harris (disambiguation).
John Harris Jr. (17 November 1791 – 28 December 1873), was an English artist who specialised in pen-and-ink facsimile work,[1][2] and Masonic catechetical designs.[3]
His father was John Harris (1767–1832), the watercolour painter.[4] His son, also John Harris, continued his work after Harris himself became incapacitated, and after his death.
Facsimiles
Harris earned his income as an artist chiefly from the production of facsimiles, used to replace pages (or entire sections) of books which had been damaged or become decayed. Harris himself suggested that the process of replacing damaged pages with facsimile reproductions was first popularised by George Spencer, 2nd Earl Spencer, who commissioned such work through Harris's employer, John Whittaker.[1] The practice of adding pen facsimiles to replace missing pages in early printed books was common in the nineteenth century, especially for "collectors who
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John Harris Biography
John was born in London, July 29th 1948. He began painting at 14 and entered Luton College of Art at 16. He attended the Fine Art course at Exeter in 1967 to study painting, and graduated from there in 1970. For six years he travelled and studied meditation.
In 1976 he began to produce paintings which expressed the preoccupations with scale and space that remain with him to the present day. His first exhibition was a shared show with the artist and architect Nicholas Gilbert Scott, held at the Northcott Theatre in Exeter University in 1977. Much of the work from that period was included in a book, MASS, published by Paper Tiger in 2000.
In 1984/5 he visited NASA. They invited him to witness a launch of the space shuttle and record the event in a painting, the first British artist to be honoured in this way. That work now hangs in the Kennedy Space Centre and is part of the Smithsonian Collection.
During the 1980's he started to illustrate book covers, mostly for US publishers, and continues to do that to this day. His work can be seen o
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