Robert Harrison is a Welsh artist living in Neath. He studied at the West of England College of Art, Bristol where he achieved a degree in art and design. After a post-graduate course at Cardiff University, he taught art at a comprehensive school in Hertfordshire before becoming a full-time artist. He exhibits in galleries across South Wales.

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Harrison uses fast-drying alkyd oil paints applied with a palette knife over a textured surface. Various implements and techniques are employed to obtain a multi-layered effect and subtle nuances of colour and texture. His paintings are almost entirely based on the Welsh landscape.

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"I begin by carefully analysing the structure of my subject and then I invent a framework or construction to reveal the hidden architecture within. The desired outcome is to find the subject's abstract counterpart and fuse the two into a clear unified whole."