Richard Harrison

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In spite of the serious illness that was soon to lead to his death, Brian afforded me the great honour of coming to my studio on Sunday 7th June 2015, and writing the following commentary.
All of the paintings in this exhibition were seen by Bryan that day.

'We should see Harrison as a visionary prophet, young and formidable in mind, a painter of undiminished turbulent enquiry with all the advantages of practice, education, maturity and broad experience. Many may agree with this feeling for his work while disagreeing with my deeper interpretation. So be it. By all means see him only as a painter. Live with the marks and colours of his brush. Slowly become aware of words forming in your mind. Some of these words will be mine.'

Brian Sewell