London Paint Club

Graham Harwood

b. 1954, London. Lives and works in London

Graham Harwood received a BA (Hons) in Painting from Ravensbourne College of Art and Design in 1983, and a MA in Painting from the University of East London in 2005. Harwood explains, “My ‘landscapes’ are my response to the world I see and experience, filtered through discourse with philosophy, science, music and literature. It’s wonderful to work within a traditional genre of painting and at the same time subvert it. As part of my process I overpaint photographs often collected and sourced from the web. This is driven by the example of my father who would overpaint the black and white photographs he had developed in the kitchen/darkroom, to add colour. My larger scale paintings tend to take months to complete but are often finished with speed, adding final linear marks with oil paint squeezed straight from the tube. In the act of painting, layering marks, working with fine transparent paint to thick impasto and disrupting the surface with spray paint, I find things that come to dominate the piece. I think of this as the ‘Unicorn’ in the work. The uninvited guest that makes things more interesting. In this way the painting itself isn’t necessarily limited to the ideas used to hang it on. Within the ‘great complexity’ my painting is a celebration of existence.”

Graham Harwood

Solo Exhibitions

A Room Upstairs Gallery Space, London

Group Exhibitions

Air for auction, Old bank vault gallery, London

Education

  • 2002-2005 MA, Painting, University of East London 
  • 1979-1983 – BA(Hons), Painting, Ravensbourne College of Art and Design 

Press & Publications

LandEscape, Art Review magazine, 10th Anniversary Edition

Collections

Private collections in the UK, Europe and USA.

Works by Graham Harwood

Graham Harwood, For Mnemosyne - A whiter shade of pale, 2020, Oil and acrylic on canvas, 122 x 153 cm, Price Available Upon Request, © The Artist

Graham Harwood

For Mnemosyne – A whiter shade of pale, 2020
Price Available Upon Request

Graham Harwood, Interface - The smile on the face of the Tiger, 2020, Oil and acrylic on canvas, 153 x 153 cm, Price Available Upon Request, © The Artist

Graham Harwood

Interface – The smile on the face of the Tiger, 2020
Price Available Upon Request

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