User:Pat Harris/sandbox

'Pat Harris was born in Dublin in 1953 and is regarded as one of Ireland's leading figurative painters.

Education:

He is a graduate of the National College of Art & Design Dublin, graduating in 1977 and of The National Higher Institute of Fine Art Antwerp:HISK, graduation in 1981. In 2008 he was awarded a PhD in Fine Art by The University of Antwerp.

In 1986 he was appointed Professor of Painting at The Royal Academy of Fine Art Antwerp, a position he held until 2015.

Work

Pat Harris is a contemporary Irish painter. Now sharing his time between studios in Belgium and Ireland it was his time in mainland Europe that somehow strengthened his ties with the West Coast of Ireland, with the vastness of the Atlantic Ocean and its sense of being on the edge of Europe, a concept that he has incorporated into his work.