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Canada Aqua Park. 30x40cm, Oil pastels on paper, Victoria Island, Canada 2004 Water, 30x40cm, oil pastels on paper, Victoria Island Canada, 2004

October 2008, Beijing. This was a joint exhibition with the talented Song Yang, a young Chinese illustrator and painter. The exhibition was held in the middle of Beijing’s Dashanzi Art District. A lot of people came through, most were mystified as to why my paintings “looked so miserable,” especially the portraits. It wasn’t intentional, people… Continue reading Beijing Time

Solo exhibition at the Petrovka Studio and Gallery Peter Hainsworth for ‘PASSPORT’ magazine, October 2012.On a dark Autumn evening in 2012, a band of Moscow friends and art lovers trekked their way up behind the Monastery on Petrovka Street to Davina Garrido De Miguel’s ‘Petrovka’ gallery studio to a welcoming glass of champaign.John Harrison had eight ‘night paintings’… Continue reading Petrovka Studio and Gallery

July 6-19. Cultural Heritage Fund, Moscow. This gallery is located about 5 minutes walk from the Old Tretyakovsky Gallery in Moscow; I was very fortunate to have been invited to exhibit there. I used to share a studio in 1989-1991 with Yury Rodin, Tsigul and others, very near there, on Bolshaya Ordinka, so it was… Continue reading ‘CULTURES’

22nd-30th April 2022 This was a small exhibition, boy first in Moscow many years, held in the pub ‘SousSol’ (Bolshoy Kozikhinsky Pereulok 21) of an old Brit/American friend of mine — Simon Connolly. The whole thing was put together by the British Business Club (in particular — Chris Mawer). There were about 50 people packed… Continue reading ‘SousSol’

30.3.23-31.5.23. NB Gallery, Moscow. NB GALLERY were very nice, and helped organise a fantastic reception when about 40 people came. The gallery is an old Moscow flat on Sivtsek Vrazhek, and the paintings looked great in that setting, with good lighting. Here’s a link to NB’s section on their website: http://www.nbgallery.com/en/?content=exhibition&id=80

13th-27th June 2023 I have been teaching in this school, and they asked me to put on an exhibition. The children were surprised that their ‘Big Themes’; teacher paints pictures as well.

21.6.23. Not really an exhibition, but a presentation of one painting, as a gift from the British Business Club (BBC) which commissioned it, to Father Malcolm Rogers (MBE) and his wife Alison (BE). The gift was a a present from the BBC to Malcolm and Alison after 6 years serving at pastor at St. Andrews… Continue reading St. Andrew’s Painting