STATEMENT

Basically, I'm a traditional (some might say "old-fashioned") naturalist painter with an interest in various scientific disciplines. I have always believed that the starting point for all creative work must be the idea. This may come from within or from outside, although the fact remains that even those more abstract ideas that do come from within are initally fuelled from experience of the natural world. The image I see either in my mind's eye or in nature is what generates the excitement and thus the energy to create a painting. For me, painting or drawing is also first and foremost about seeing, about observing. Merely look at an object, and one will see it superficially -- indeed as most people see it, but draw or paint it and it will begin to reveal something of itself. I hope to share this vision with others

BIOGRAPHY		Garry L. Harwood is a naturallist painter born in 1959 in London, England. Having initially studied for a career as a marine biologist and physical oceanographer he turned to painting full time in 2009 following two decades working in the jewellery industry. His interest in the natural and physical sciences and the role played by the artist in the visualization of scientific data and its communication to the public occasionally influences his work. He has exhibited his paintings in Europe, Chile, the USA, and in the UK, with the Royal Society of Marine Artists and the Chelsea Art Society amongst others. A Fellow of the International Association of Astronomical Artists, he presently lives and works on the wild, Atlantic-facing coastlne of the West Penwith peninsula at the extreme western tip of Cornwall.