Philip Harris

Prize winning figurative artist living and working in the New Forest, UK.
I have been working full time as a professional artist since graduating from Bradford College of Art in 1986.

In 1991 and 1993 I won 3rd and 1st Prize respectively in the BP Portrait Awards at the National Portrait Gallery, London.

Exhibited internationally.



Artists Statement:

I work within the progressive tradition of Realism.
I am interested in existential issues, what it feels like to be alive, how can one feel more fulfilled, how do we connect with the exterior world and what is preventing us from achieving that?.
The characters in my paintings are connected to their environment but unable to wholly integrate into it, sometimes they are actively threatened by it, their means of fulfilment, relief or redemption frustratingly inaccessible to them.
My characters are confused, isolated, confrontational, fearful or introvert. They are unsettled by their situation, sometimes caught in motion between expressions. They may eyeball the viewer trying to calculate how our presence affects them or stand frozen, inhibited and exposed.
I paint primarily by instinct and trust that above intellect. My intention is to make emotionally charged, expressive and auth...

1983-86 Bradford and Ilkley community college. B.A in General art and design.

1981-83 Mansfield college of art DATEC Diploma in General art and design

Selected Exhibitions:
2019 Solo Show, The poetics of Exactitude, Beaux Arts, London, UK
2018 LAPADA Art Fair, Beaux Arts, London
2018 Summer Exhibition, Beaux Arts, London, UK
2017 Summer Exhibition, Come Rain Come Shine, Beaux Arts, London, U.K
2017 Winter Show, Plus One Gallery, London, U.K
2017 ‘Paul Smith to J.K Rowling’, B.P Portrait Award Exhibition, Brynmor Jones Library, University of Hull, U.K
2016 The Beauty of Paper, Plus One Gallery, London
2015 Winter Show, Plus One Gallery, London, UK
2015 Reality, Modern and Contemporary British Painting, The Walker Gallery, Liverpool, UK
2014 Reality, Modern and Contemporary British Painting, Sainsbury Centre of Visual Arts, Norwich, U.K
2013 Hyperrealism Today, Museu del Tabac, Andorra
2012 Winter Show, Plus One Gallery, London, UK
2012 London's Calling, Plus One Gallery, London, UK
2011 In Focus, Three Man Show, Plus One Gallery, London, UK
2010 Winter Show, Plus One Gallery, London, UK
2009 Royal Society of Portraiture Exhibition, Mall Galleries, London, UK
2009 London Art Fair, Malcolm Langley Enterprises, Islington, UK
2008 London Art Fair, Malcolm Langley Enterprises, Islington, UK
2007 An Eclectic Eye, The Dan Leach Collection, Tucson Mu...