Comments on: Harry Harrison’s East End Portraits https://spitalfieldslife.com/2019/02/26/harry-harrisons-east-end-portraits/ In the midst of life I woke to find myself living in an old house beside Brick Lane in the East End of London Fri, 19 Apr 2019 16:38:01 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1 By: KAREN DELVIN https://spitalfieldslife.com/2019/02/26/harry-harrisons-east-end-portraits/#comment-1281725 Fri, 19 Apr 2019 16:38:01 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=172640#comment-1281725 Mr. Harrison is an amazing artist. Truly gifted. I looked at his previous ‘lunchtime sketches,’ and was so impressed with his quick pencil drawings, how incredibly skilled his lines were. I thought he must have studied drawing buildings (by himself or took classes). And then read he was an architect! Of course!

And then I saw these paintings of homeless men. Painted with skill and such empathy. How he is able to touch our emotions, as described by all those who replied before me.

I think this artist deserves to have an exhibit of his work in a national museum / gallery. And also deserves world wide acclaim!
Kudos to you, Harry Harrison.

]]> By: Adele https://spitalfieldslife.com/2019/02/26/harry-harrisons-east-end-portraits/#comment-1281700 Fri, 19 Apr 2019 13:13:31 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=172640#comment-1281700 Wonderful portraiture. Could look at these again and again.

]]> By: Hilda Kean https://spitalfieldslife.com/2019/02/26/harry-harrisons-east-end-portraits/#comment-1281681 Fri, 19 Apr 2019 11:02:58 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=172640#comment-1281681 I’ve just seen the excellent Don McCullin who also displayed many homeless people in the East End. But this approach is rather different and interestingly displays people who are still homeless / neglected etc but now in the C21st and even 50 years after McCullin’s work. These interesting paintings make the situation even more depressing than the homelessness even half a century ago!
Why don’t you publish these alongside the also engaging buildings around Clerkenwell??

]]> By: Christine Thomas https://spitalfieldslife.com/2019/02/26/harry-harrisons-east-end-portraits/#comment-1281655 Fri, 19 Apr 2019 06:26:55 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=172640#comment-1281655 Re. Jill Wilson comment: My thoughts exactly on seeing these portraits – for not only quality of artwork but as reflecting realistic aspect, however regretable, of our national
life in 21st century Britain.

]]> By: Harry Harrison https://spitalfieldslife.com/2019/02/26/harry-harrisons-east-end-portraits/#comment-1281564 Thu, 18 Apr 2019 17:43:08 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=172640#comment-1281564 I’ve only just got round to seeing all these wonderful messages following a visit from the Gentle Author today.
To answer a couple of the questions, the portraits are in oils and the canvases are 900x600mm, about half life size.
If Gary Arber reads this, hello Gary, I hope you’re enjoying your retirement and the birds in your garden which you described to me as like a nature reserve.

]]> By: Jill Wilson https://spitalfieldslife.com/2019/02/26/harry-harrisons-east-end-portraits/#comment-1265600 Wed, 27 Feb 2019 14:24:43 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=172640#comment-1265600 Brilliant pictures – they should be in the National Portrait Gallery! I’d be interested to know how big they are.

]]> By: linda trueblood lambert https://spitalfieldslife.com/2019/02/26/harry-harrisons-east-end-portraits/#comment-1265384 Tue, 26 Feb 2019 23:11:56 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=172640#comment-1265384 These portraits are so beautiful and reach into the heart. Are they pastels? or waterecolor (my vote). Living in America, I doubt the opportunity to view them in the near future. Are there any plans to publish? Thank you so much for including his work.

]]> By: Di Corry https://spitalfieldslife.com/2019/02/26/harry-harrisons-east-end-portraits/#comment-1265339 Tue, 26 Feb 2019 20:28:53 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=172640#comment-1265339 Absolutely beautiful portraits capturing both the man and the moment with such honesty…….where did their journeys begin and what happened in their lives that led them to roam the streets of the East End?

]]> By: Bailey Jones https://spitalfieldslife.com/2019/02/26/harry-harrisons-east-end-portraits/#comment-1265320 Tue, 26 Feb 2019 19:05:26 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=172640#comment-1265320 I can only echo what others have already said: wonderful humane portraits.

]]> By: Gary Arber https://spitalfieldslife.com/2019/02/26/harry-harrisons-east-end-portraits/#comment-1265269 Tue, 26 Feb 2019 15:42:50 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=172640#comment-1265269 I am honoured to have been the subject of one of Harrys portraits, It is fantastic he has me in such a fine detail. – Thank you Harry.
Gary

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