Jim Harris

Jim Harris(1968) won the prize of “Dooyewaard Stichting” in 2017, which enabled him to work in a beautiful studio almost free of charge for 3 years. One of the studios was used by Pete Mondriaan. He also got to meet other artists there. This prize was not participated by application but by invitation. That was a precious experience for Harris.

Harris is included in some good collections like Akzo nobel, Eagon, Dutch Royal family, Thomas Ruscha, Morat institute and probably the best one is Adrian Koerfer mondo studio, which is the largest private collection of paintings in Europe. He has made a book and Harris feature in it. Akzo did the same.

Jim Harris mainly paints outside because that's where his subject is. For him, the most important thing is observing directly from life in or outside. Though painting in one way is a very intimate act and he doesn’t want any unwanted attention, standing outside with canvas and sharing it with the world seems to be unavoidable. However, once he sold a painting and met interesting people whilst painting, some of whom are still friends to this day.

“My intuition, hand, heart and gut will always make better pictures than my intellect.” For Harris, painting is much more of an intuitive, sensory and physical act more rather than an intellectual exercise. When painting, his works just “hijacks” all his attention.

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