Robert Harrison Artist Painter South Wales Fountain Fine Art Llandeilo Abstract Landscape
A Welsh artist, born in Baglan, who studied at the West of England College of Art, Bristol where he achieved a degree in art and design in Illustration, photography and design. After a postgraduate course at Cardiff University he taught Art at a comprehensive school in Hertfordshire before become a full time painter.
Robert paints the dramatic coastline of South and West Wales, mountainous regions like the Brecon Beacons and local areas of beauty such as the Gower. His scenes feature twilight and dark skies of intense blues which complement the earth colours of sienna, umber and yellow ochres typical of such areas as the Brecon Beacons and Carmarthen Fans. He employs the fast drying Alkyd oil paints which he uses in transparent layers as well as impasto.
He exhibits at the majority of galleries in South Wales, and accepts commissions.