Remembering Terry
Hi from me, Martin at Terry Harrison Art, I hope this newsletter finds you well.
I wanted to take this weeks newsletter to share some images of Terry and his many works on today, the anniversary of his passing 8 years ago.
Most of you will know Terrys signature style well, with his characterful barns, wonderful foliage and stunning coastal scenes - many of which you can see in the gallery on the website with a couple of examples here:
Terry started his career in the 1980s and spent a lot of the 90's producing fantastic depictions of classic sporting scenes, especially cricket grounds. A number of these are still available as prints and they really showcase the level of detail that went into these.
Sadly we no longer have any of the originals as they are all in private collections, but some of these images should give you an idea of the level of detail that went into these paintings:
Terry also worked with the Puzzle maker Gibsons for a long time producing wonderfully detailed works designed specifically for puzzles and depicting famous locations around the UK. I have here some photos of the original draft paintings that eventually became those well loved puzzles:
More poignantly Terry also painted a commemorative image of troops landing at Normandy on D day in 1944, an image that we are very proud to say was used on the front cover of the 80 anniversary D-Day publication:
I recently booted up Terrys old computer and went through the pictures folder to see what was there. Buried within the thousands of reference photos and many pdfs of layouts that Terry used for his numerous workshops, I found a few images of a more contemporary nature, something a little different from what we are used to seeing from Terry, but no less brilliant:
I will load these images onto the website under a Blog post with today's date along with a series of photos of some of the layout images that Terry would produce for his books and workshops. For anyone interested in seeing more of those images you can find them here.
Thats it for this week - Happy painting all!