John Harris has the sort of style that a great many American Illustrators developed during the 1970's and 80's. Most probably based on actual photographs, he composes his images as if they were photographs, but photographs taken with an impressionist's camera. Its mostly his composition I like, though I also enjoy his use of colours. He has a way of looking at big things that captures their size, despite his subjective colours and obscure narrative. He's also done a lot of sci fi art which has become iconic.
Mostly I just like the way he paints though. Big, unafraid and ambitious. Look at the superb orange under-lit high-light on the girls neck and tell me that isn't inspiring!
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