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Artist, born in Doncaster, Yorkshire, whose paintings incorporated Photo-Realist and Surrealist elements. He obtained his diploma at Mansfield, then a degree in art and design at Bradford. Group exhibitions included The Spectator Art Award, Spink & Son, 1989; British Month, Roy Miles Gallery, 1991; BP Portrait Award Exhibition, National Portrait Gallery, 1st Prize winner, 1993 (the ensuing 1994 commission was to paint the dancer Sir Anthony Dowell); and The Discerning Eye, Mall Galleries, 1995. Had a solo show at Beaux Arts, 1996. National Portrait Gallery and Metropolitan Museum of Modern Art, New York, hold Harris’s work.

Text source: 'Artists in Britain Since 1945' by David Buckman (Art Dictionaries Ltd, part of Sansom & Company)


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