His new book provides a fantastic primer for that long and varied career, along with some great insight into his process.”– The Verge I start with an abstraction and I let the feelings coalesce into form,” said Harris. “And because I’m thinking in the context of science and science fiction, the forms that I find on the canvas end up relating to those ideas.” However, this realm of art also offers the maximum freedom, with the discipline of remaining accessible to its public.

The striking paintings and illustrations of English artist John Harris imagine a brightly colored, haunting world beyond Earth and even beyond the stars.”– Flavorwire Since Harris’ work is imaginative and painted in interesting ways, this work is worth adding to collections of illustration art fans and those of painters in general.”– Art Contrarian 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 England in 1976, Harris began exploring the theme of monumental scale and space, producing a series of science fiction art. In the late 1970s he joined Young Artists, the premier agency for the emerging movement of science fiction art in the UK. This limited edition is presented with an exclusive art print called Shai-Hulud, signed by the John Harris. One of Harris’ best known pieces came from when he was invited by NASA to see an early morning shuttle launch in 1985. Harris remembers trying to photograph the moment of liftoff with his camera. But rather than capture the feeling of excitement, he felt that the lens introduced an unwanted separation between him and the event. It wasn’t until the shuttle took off that he put the camera down and looked at the light and color produced by the launch’s vapor exhaust.He was born in the Bronx, New York, one of 12 children of James Harris, a grocery clerk, and his wife, Mary (nee Rowan). Originally wanting to be a pilot or an actor, John found his calling as a photographer after seeing Edward Steichen’s Family of Man exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in 1955. He adopted as his professional name the double-barrelled Benton-Harris to make his surname more distinctive This is the perfect collection to adorn the coffee table of any science fiction fan.”– Geek Art Gallery From London he began his pilgrimage around England, and developed a visual passion for the country that would never leave him, though he was also convinced that the English never cared for photography as much as he did, especially the art establishment, whom he believed were “always busy seeking newness”. Harris published an article in Granta in 1962 on Cambridge's 19th-century architect/developer Richard Reynolds Rowe. He taught drawing for 25 years in the Cambridge Arts School (CCAT, now Anglia Ruskin University), and painted (topography and light) until this career came to end with a joint exhibition between the Fitzwilliam Museum and the Cambridge University School of Architecture. A catalogue was published by the Fitzwilliam Museum. John's painting of Spindizzy (an anti-gravity device), from James Blish's Cities in Flight omnibus Where's the coolest place that your job has taken you?

Past Winners of the Chesley Awards". Chesley Awards. Association of Science Fiction and Fantasy Artists . Retrieved 23 April 2021. Of particular note is the 'Works by Author' appendix, which displays several illustrations side by side, all the better to see how they work as a whole over the course of a given series. For myself, who came to Harris' artwork through Scalzi's 'Old Man's War' series, to see several illustrations from the books laid out together was both a chance to re-examine the paintings together, as well as an opportunity to reflect on a series of books I thoroughly enjoyed.

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Other projects included Americans in Europe, exhibited at the Santa Fe Centre for Photography in 1983; and Children of the Troubles, shot in Northern Ireland in the 1970s. A good selection of his work from England and New York was published in Creative Camera Collection 5 in 1978, and he was supportive in the research for and the making of the 2019 film Do Not Bend: The Photographic Life of Bill Jay, about the founder of Creative Camera magazine.

In 2010 Harris became a regular contributor to the exhibitions of the Symposium of Imaginative Realism (Illuxcon). The distinguished architectural historian John Harris, scion of a dynasty of upholsterers, spent his early years in a dim semi-detached house in suburban Cowley, on London’s western fringe. The rebellious child found solace in his bachelor Uncle Sid, whose passion for fishing, for archaeology and literature, and for exploring country estates was an inspiration. In 1984 I went to the States for the first time. That spring I'd had the privilege of meeting Arthur C Clarke in Sri Lanka, and there I met a friend of his, Freddie Durant III. Jon Harris (born 1943) is an artist, illustrator, and calligrapher, who has a particular interest in architecture and topography. He lives in Cambridge, which he has made his base since he graduated from the University of Cambridge, with a degree in Art History, in 1965. Cambridge is also the principal subject of his drawings. Harris is particularly known for his illustrated, calligraphic, maps. The state of sci-fi and fantasy art is a contentious issue. It's a hugely varied industry, but more and more now, I see the level of technical ability going through the roof.Titan Books has released another fabulous art book of a contemporary science fiction artist. The Art of John Harris, Beyond The Horizonis as beautiful as the images contained in it.”– Tor.com Rainmaker Entertainment based in Vancouver, hired Harris in 2007, to work on The Weinstein Company's movie, Escape from Planet Earth. [6]