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His private interests are music and animal welfare. He writes often
on opera, on the plight of endangered bears, tigers and apes, and
on the exploitation of farm animals. He raises funds for the rescue
and rehoming of abandoned and ill-treated domestic pets in one of
the most deprived areas of London and keeps three rescued bitches.
At a time when figurative painting has long been out of fashion in
British art schools and among the curators of the nation's
galleries of modern art, Richard Harrison has been one of the very
few younger contemporary artists to hold to this ancestral
tradition. His early work was essentially abstract, and abstract
values have formed the armature of all of his later work, but in
subject he has moved from an interest in the texture and
manipulable qualities of the simple materials of a painting to
biblical and mythical narratives that were common among European
painters from the High Renaissance to the High Olympus of Victorian
art. As a student at Chelsea School of Art, Harrison was noticed in
1987 by the critic Brian Sewell, then searching for young painters
for an exhibition; they have remained in contact ever since. This
affectionate but dispassionate and critical book, part analysis and
part account of an often alarming life, represents a comprehensive
record of Harrison's intellectual and aesthetic development.
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