About

Video - A painting journey for well being

I am a Bristol based landscape artist and studied fine art at Chelsea (UAL).

My plein air paintings offer the opportunity to capture ephemeral visions of the landscape. These views are a fleeting and spiritual description of time, invoking the romantic and revealing the everyday sublime.

Influences include Albert Marquet, Samuel Palmer, Ben Nicholson, Alfred Wallis, Eric Ravilious and many other post war landscape artists.

30th Sept 23 - 14th April 24 -Concealed/Reveal - Bristol Museum and Art Gallery
7th Sept 23 -12th Feb 24 - Sea To See - ORTUS, Grove Lane, London
2nd Jan 23 - 30th April 23, A Plein Air Journey, Southmead Hospital, Bristol
1st Dec 2021 – 1st March 2022, The Painted Path, online exhibition at www.georgejharding.co.uk
12th April – 20th May 2016, Mirror, The Ripley Arts Centre, Bromley, London
5thDec 2013 – 31stJan 2014, Art Leads To External Places, The Long Gallery, Maudsley Hospital, London
7th – 30th March 2012, There Is Good In Us, Bethlem Gallery, Bethlem Royal Hospital, Kent
18th May – 6th June 2012, Object, Peoples Republic of Stokes Croft, Jamaica Street, Stokes Croft, Bristol
15th April 23 - 30th March 24, Every Picture Tells A Story - Glenside Museum
22nd Feb - 2nd Sept 2023, Bethlem Museum Of The Mind - The Faces We Present
28th Jan 2022 – 26th June 2022, The Brain In Art and Science, Bunderskunsthalle, Bonn, Germany
27th Jan – 21st April 2022, Another Space Within, Outside In online exhibition
14th Feb 2021 – 31st March 2021, In Absentia, online exhibition for TURPS BANANA Correspondence Course 20/21
12th – 15th March 2020, Battersea Affordable Art Fair London, with Clifton Fine Art, Bristol
7th – 23rd Dec 2019, Bethlem Affordable Art Fair, Bethlem Gallery, Bethlem Royal Hospital, Beckenham, Kent
21st – 24th Nov 2019, Edinburgh Art Fair, With Clifton Fine Art, Bristol
29th Sept – 1st Dec 2019, 167th Annual Open Exhibition, RWA, Bristol
16th Jan – 27th April 2019, The Anatomy Of Melancholy, Museum Of The Mind, Bethlem Royal Hospital, Beckenham, Kent
7th Dec – 23rd Dec 2018, Bethlem Affordable Art Fair, Bethlem Gallery, Bethlem Royal Hospital, Kent
12th April – 3rd May 2018, Cardboard Citizens Charity Auction And Exhibition, Hanover Street, Mayfair, London
28th April – 12th May 2018, As Seen On Stokes Croft, Great White Art, Bristol
25th Nov – 22nd Dec 2017, Bethlem Affordable Art Fair, Bethlem Gallery, Bethlem Royal Hospital, Beckenham, Kent
1st Oct – 30th Nov 2017, With Art In Mind, Zebra One Gallery, Hampstead, London
1st July – 26th Aug 2017, XX, Bethlem Gallery, Bethlem Royal Hospital, Kent
Alternative Visions: Undiscovered Art From The South West
3rd June – 10th Sept 2017, Bristol Museum And Art Gallery
25th Sep – 10th Dec 2017, Falmouth Art Gallery,
6th Jan – 11th March 2018, The Wilson Cheltenham,
21st March – 6th May 2018, Poole Museum
11th Feb – 7th April 2016, Youtopia, Museum Of The Mind, Bethlem Royal Hospital, Beckenham, Kent
25th Jan – 24th March 2016, Letting In The Light, Stratford Library, Stratford, London
4th Oct – 29th Nov 2015, Annual Autumn exhibition, RWA Bristol
19th Feb – 10th April 2015, Where is the Work in the Work of Art, Bethlem Gallery, Bethlem Royal Hospital, Kent
1st – 23rd Dec 2013, Bethlem Affordable Art Fair, Bethlem Gallery, Bethlem Royal Hospital, Kent
26th – 28th July 2013, Impact Arts Fair, Brixton, London
12th – 23rd July 2012, One In Four Online Auction, Studio Upstairs, Royal Academy of Arts, Burlington House, Piccadilly, London)
Sun 4th Dec, A Little Yellow Pill, The Peckham Hotel, Copeland Road, SE15 3SN
4th Nov – 8th Jan 2012, In Darkness Blooms, View Art Gallery, Bristol
7th July – 31st August 2011, Summer Madness, View Art Gallery, Bristol
20th – 23rd May 2011, Impact Arts Fair @ Candid Arts Trust, Islington, London
04th – 28th May 2011, Drawn From Experience, SW1 Gallery, Victoria, London
22nd – 31st March 2011, Fringe Artists, Guardian News And Media, Kings Place, London
1st – 23rd Dec 2010, Bethlem Affordable Art Fair, Bethlem Gallery, Bethlem Royal Hospital, Kent
16th – 21st Nov 2010, Auction East (for the Katmandu Arts Foundation), Five Hundred Dollars Gallery, Vyner Street, London
22nd – 30th Jan 2010, Future Phase, The Arches, Southwark, London
14th – 17th Dec, The Art Below Zero Christmas Art Fair, Notting Hill, London
13th – 21st March 2009, At Home, Maddox Gallery, Mayfair, London
17th – 29th Nov 2008, Lynn Painter-Stainers Prize, Painters Hall, London
27th – 31st March 2008, Renonsense, The Crypt, Euston, London
28th Feb – 2nd March 2008, Salon Contemporary, Form Art Fair, Olympia, London
29th Nov – 19th Jan 2008, SaLon Contemporary, Christmas Show, Westbourne Grove, Notting Hill, London
13th Sep – 15th Oct 2007, SaLon Contemporary, Autumn Show, Westbourne Grove, Notting Hill, London
26th July – 10th Sep 2007, SaLon Contemporary, Summer Show, Westbourne Grove, Notting Hill, London
14th June – 20th June 2007, Chelsea Fine Art Degree Show, Chelsea College of Art and Design, 16 John Islip Street, Millbank, London
May – Dec 2021- The Arts Council England (Develop Your Creative Practice) DYCP Grant
Jan 2018 – June 2019 – Knowle West Media Centre (KWMC) – The Network For Creative Enterprise (NfCE)
Blog post for CultureHealthAndWellbeingAlliance (CHWA) Feb 2022
Front cover of British Journal of Psychiatry International May issue 2021
Blog post for the Bethlem Gallery, June 2020
Blog post for the Baring Foundation, April 2020
Front cover for The Baring Foundation, Creatively Minded Report, Feb 2020
Time Out London, The Anatomy of Melancholy, Art Review Jan 2019
The Lancet Psychiatry, The Meaning Of Art And Art Therapy, (comment commissioned for Matisse Trail on Art Therapy) Nov 2016
The Lancet Psychiatry, A Labour Of Love, (Essay written about my experiences of mental health and Art)Dec 2015
The Lancet Psychiatry Cover Artist 2015
The Lancet Psychiatry, vol 379, April 2012, The Art Of Medicine, Outsider Art
Front Cover Of British Journal of Psychiatry, Sept issue 2011
Outside In – Share Art Event Online – 21st April 2021
Art and Health South West – AHSW Zoom Conference – 20th Nov 2020
Art And Health South West – panel discussion at AHSW Conference (Diversity and Inclusion in Arts and Health) – 13th-14th Dec 2018
Poole Museum – Tour Of Alternative Visions – 24th March 2018
Science Museum, London – Science Of Mental Health – Wed 25th April 2012
Bethlem Museum of the Mind
Bristol Museum and Archives
Birmingham University
The Wellcome Collection
The LesMes Collection
Norton Rose
South London and Maudsley (SLaM)